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| author | Pádraig Brady <P@draigBrady.com> | 2015-01-29 18:44:41 +0000 |
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| committer | Pádraig Brady <P@draigBrady.com> | 2015-01-29 19:06:57 +0000 |
| commit | ecc8f8104893f1eaae8a8e7e3e55c8c42f4c7206 (patch) | |
| tree | 68ad0980858003ed67c21507bc7b77127452373a /src | |
| parent | 8b2bf5295f353016d4f5e6a2317d55b6a8e7fd00 (diff) | |
| download | coreutils-ecc8f8104893f1eaae8a8e7e3e55c8c42f4c7206.tar.xz | |
doc: clarify the output format for the *sum utilities
* src/md5sum.c (usage): Detail the reasons for the default
double space between checksum and file name.
* doc/coreutils.texi (md5sum invocation): Likewise.
Explicitly mention the 3 formats that --check supports.
Fixes http://bugs.gnu.org/19725
Diffstat (limited to 'src')
| -rw-r--r-- | src/md5sum.c | 6 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/src/md5sum.c b/src/md5sum.c index a60e2ff3a..8c5f8761b 100644 --- a/src/md5sum.c +++ b/src/md5sum.c @@ -206,9 +206,9 @@ The following four options are useful only when verifying checksums:\n\ printf (_("\ \n\ The sums are computed as described in %s. When checking, the input\n\ -should be a former output of this program. The default mode is to print\n\ -a line with checksum, a character indicating input mode ('*' for binary,\n\ -space for text), and name for each FILE.\n"), +should be a former output of this program. The default mode is to print a\n\ +line with checksum, a space, a character indicating input mode ('*' for binary,\ +\n' ' for text or where binary is insignificant), and name for each FILE.\n"), DIGEST_REFERENCE); emit_ancillary_info (PROGRAM_NAME); } |