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authorGuenter Knauf <lists@gknw.net>2009-10-03 23:24:26 +0200
committerJim Meyering <meyering@redhat.com>2009-10-07 09:31:27 +0200
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downloadcoreutils-b95be30e3fc4831391355f89a959d0c503bed5fb.tar.xz
md5sum, sha*sum: also accept openssl checksum syntax
* src/md5sum.c (split_3): Accept openssl checksum syntax, which differs only by two spaces from that of the bsd checksum tools: openssl: MD5(f)= d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e bsd: MD5 (f) = d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e
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@@ -2,6 +2,13 @@ GNU coreutils NEWS -*- outline -*-
* Noteworthy changes in release ?.? (????-??-??) [?]
+** Bug fixes
+
+** New features
+
+ md5sum --check now also accepts openssl-style checksums.
+ So do sha1sum, sha224sum, sha384sum and sha512sum.
+
* Noteworthy changes in release 8.0 (2009-10-06) [beta]