Bug 3053

Summary:	md5sum --check=file option parsing broken
Product:	[Retired] Red Hat Linux	Reporter:	dharris
Component:	textutils	Assignee:	Cristian Gafton <gafton>
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Version:	6.0	CC:	dharris
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Description dharris 1999-05-25 23:03:21 UTC

The md5sum manpage shows a command line option using the
following syntax "-c, --check=file". Problem is that the
implementation does not accept --check=file syntax, but
only "-c file" and "--check file".

Could be either an error with the manpage or the
implementation... the "me5sum --help is ambiguous... and
I'm not up on my getopt standards.

Evidence:

[root@hobbes tempdo_records]# md5sum list > hash
[root@hobbes tempdo_records]#
[root@hobbes tempdo_records]# md5sum --check=hash
md5sum: option `--check' doesn't allow an argument
Try `md5sum --help' for more information.
[root@hobbes tempdo_records]# md5sum --check hash
list: OK
[root@hobbes tempdo_records]# md5sum -c hash
list: OK
[root@hobbes tempdo_records]#

Comment 1 David Lawrence 1999-05-25 23:21:59 UTC

The man page is definitely different than the usage spit out the
md5sum --help command.

Comment 2 Cristian Gafton 1999-07-28 07:48:59 UTC

This is the output from md5sum --help on a RH 6.0 system. Looks clean
to me.

md5sum --help
Usage: md5sum [OPTION] [FILE]...
  or:  md5sum [OPTION] --check [FILE]
Print or check MD5 checksums.
With no FILE, or when FILE is -, read standard input.

  -b, --binary            read files in binary mode
  -c, --check             check MD5 sums against given list
  -t, --text              read files in text mode (default)

The following two options are useful only when verifying checksums:
      --status            don't output anything, status code shows
success
  -w, --warn              warn about improperly formated MD5 checksum
lines

      --help              display this help and exit
      --version           output version information and exit