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Re: sum: does not always display filename
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Andreas Schwab |
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Re: sum: does not always display filename |
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Fri, 05 Dec 2003 12:26:27 +0100 |
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"Matt Weinstein" <address@hidden> writes:
> Problem:
> sum does not output the filename of the file being sum(med) if only one
> filename is supplied.
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> This could lead to problems with e.g. archiving systems, etc.
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> This is inconsistent and undocumented to the best of my knowledge.
It is at least consistent with grep, and probably matches historical (BSD)
behaviour. Note that "sum -s" does not have this quirk.
Andreas.
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