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| -rw-r--r-- | doc/coreutils.texi | 13 |
1 files changed, 12 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/doc/coreutils.texi b/doc/coreutils.texi index 62b31fe1a..e015fc57f 100644 --- a/doc/coreutils.texi +++ b/doc/coreutils.texi @@ -3705,6 +3705,17 @@ If all listed files are readable and are consistent with the associated MD5 checksums, exit successfully. Otherwise exit with a status code indicating there was a failure. +@item --tag +@opindex --tag +@cindex BSD output +Output BSD style checksums, which indicate the checksum algorithm used. +As a @acronym{GNU} extension, file names with problematic characters +are escaped as described above, with the same escaping indicator of @samp{\} +at the start of the line, being used. +The @option{--tag} option implies binary mode, and is disallowed with +@option{--text} mode as supporting that would unnecessarily complicate +the output format, while providing little benefit. + @item -t @itemx --text @opindex -t @@ -3715,7 +3726,7 @@ outputting a @samp{ } flag. This is the inverse of @option{--binary}. This option is the default on systems like @acronym{GNU} that do not distinguish between binary and text files. On other systems, it is the default for reading standard input when standard input is a -terminal. +terminal. This mode is never defaulted to if @option{--tag} is used. @item -w @itemx --warn |