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authorOndrej Oprala <ooprala@redhat.com>2012-08-02 13:31:50 +0200
committerPádraig Brady <P@draigBrady.com>2012-08-24 15:56:26 +0100
commitc9f4c323220f51a42e3da8ea79f9ddcedab041b9 (patch)
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downloadcoreutils-c9f4c323220f51a42e3da8ea79f9ddcedab041b9.tar.xz
md5sum, sha*sum: add --tag to output a format indicating the algorithm
The format used is the BSD traditional format which looks like: MD5 (/dev/null) = d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e * NEWS: Add new feature info. * doc/coreutils.texi (md5sum invocation): Add detailed information about the new --tag option. * src/md5sum.c: Add the new --tag option for BSD-style output. (bsd_split_3): Add ESCAPED_FILENAME parameter. (print_filename): New function refactored from main(). (filename_unescape): New function refactored from split_3(). * tests/misc/md5sum-bsd: Add tests for the new feature.
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@@ -2,6 +2,12 @@ GNU coreutils NEWS -*- outline -*-
* Noteworthy changes in release ?.? (????-??-??) [?]
+** New features
+
+ md5sum now accepts the --tag option to print BSD-style output with GNU
+ file name escaping. This also affects sha1sum, sha224sum, sha256sum,
+ sha384sum and sha512sum.
+
** Bug fixes
du no longer emits a "disk-corrupted"-style diagnostic when it detects