(STRING_OPTION): Remove.

(long_options, main): Remove support for undocumented and
obsolete --string option, as suggested in the 1996-09-26 patch.

1 files changed, 2 insertions, 45 deletions

diff --git a/src/md5sum.c b/src/md5sum.c
index 9a9bdb223..d2efd5e2c 100644
--- a/src/md5sum.c
+++ b/src/md5sum.c
@@ -105,8 +105,7 @@ char *program_name;
    non-character as a pseudo short option, starting with CHAR_MAX + 1.  */
 enum
 {
-  STATUS_OPTION = CHAR_MAX + 1,
-  STRING_OPTION
+  STATUS_OPTION = CHAR_MAX + 1
 };
 
 static const struct option long_options[] =
@@ -114,7 +113,6 @@ static const struct option long_options[] =
   { "binary", no_argument, 0, 'b' },
   { "check", no_argument, 0, 'c' },
   { "status", no_argument, 0, STATUS_OPTION },
-  { "string", required_argument, 0, STRING_OPTION },
   { "text", no_argument, 0, 't' },
   { "warn", no_argument, 0, 'w' },
   { GETOPT_HELP_OPTION_DECL },
@@ -558,8 +556,6 @@ main (int argc, char **argv)
   unsigned char bin_buffer[MAX_DIGEST_BIN_BYTES];
   bool do_check = false;
   int opt;
-  char **string = NULL;
-  size_t n_strings = 0;
   bool ok = true;
   bool file_type_specified = false;
 
@@ -584,13 +580,6 @@ main (int argc, char **argv)
   while ((opt = getopt_long (argc, argv, "bctw", long_options, NULL)) != -1)
     switch (opt)
       {
-      case STRING_OPTION:
-	{
-	  if (string == NULL)
-	    string = xnmalloc (argc - 1, sizeof *string);
-	  string[n_strings++] = optarg;
-	}
-	break;
       case 'b':
 	file_type_specified = true;
 	binary = true;
@@ -626,13 +615,6 @@ main (int argc, char **argv)
       usage (EXIT_FAILURE);
     }
 
-  if (n_strings > 0 && do_check)
-    {
-      error (0, 0,
-	     _("the --string and --check options are mutually exclusive"));
-      usage (EXIT_FAILURE);
-    }
-
   if (status_only & !do_check)
     {
       error (0, 0,
@@ -647,32 +629,7 @@ main (int argc, char **argv)
       usage (EXIT_FAILURE);
     }
 
-  if (n_strings > 0)
-    {
-      size_t i;
-
-      if (optind < argc)
-	{
-	  error (0, 0, _("extra operand %s"), quote (argv[optind]));
-	  fprintf (stderr, "%s\n",
-		   _("File operands cannot be combined with --string."));
-	  usage (EXIT_FAILURE);
-	}
-      for (i = 0; i < n_strings; ++i)
-	{
-	  size_t cnt;
-	  if (algorithm == ALG_MD5)
-	    md5_buffer (string[i], strlen (string[i]), bin_buffer);
-	  else
-	    sha1_buffer (string[i], strlen (string[i]), bin_buffer);
-
-	  for (cnt = 0; cnt < (digest_hex_bytes / 2); ++cnt)
-	    printf ("%02x", bin_buffer[cnt]);
-
-	  printf ("  \"%s\"\n", string[i]);
-	}
-    }
-  else if (do_check)
+  if (do_check)
     {
       if (optind + 1 < argc)
 	{