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bug#9531: md5sum: confusing documentation for file type output
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Rüdiger Meier |
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bug#9531: md5sum: confusing documentation for file type output |
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Sun, 18 Sep 2011 02:06:36 +0200 |
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On Sunday 18 September 2011, Alan Curry wrote:
> [...] if you believed that having a
> "text file"/"binary file" distinction is a good idea at all. Which I
> don't.
Yep, we should look for the guys who invented O_TEXT and CRLF to give
them a whipping.
But the only thing why I hijacked this thread is this from the manpage
on POSIX systems:
-b, --binary
read in binary mode
-t, --text
read in text mode (default)
which is IMO confusing though it's correct because it makes no
difference (except printing ' ' or '*').
First time I've read it I thought "WTF, are they emulating O_TEXT/CRLF
crap by default or what?" I simply wanted to calculate md5sum from
files but the manpage let me think that it does something odd per
default. So I thought about using --binary always from now and
re-checking all my existing md5sums. Finally I've noticed that the
whole time I've thought about this was completely wasted.
cu,
Rudi
- bug#9531: md5sum: confusing documentation for file type output, Reuben Thomas, 2011/09/17
- bug#9531: md5sum: confusing documentation for file type output, Rüdiger Meier, 2011/09/17
- bug#9531: md5sum: confusing documentation for file type output, Eric Blake, 2011/09/17
- bug#9531: md5sum: confusing documentation for file type output, Rüdiger Meier, 2011/09/17
- bug#9531: md5sum: confusing documentation for file type output, Rüdiger Meier, 2011/09/17
- bug#9531: md5sum: confusing documentation for file type output, Eric Blake, 2011/09/17
- bug#9531: md5sum: confusing documentation for file type output, Jim Meyering, 2011/09/17
- bug#9531: md5sum: confusing documentation for file type output, Rüdiger Meier, 2011/09/17
- bug#9531: md5sum: confusing documentation for file type output, Alan Curry, 2011/09/17
- bug#9531: md5sum: confusing documentation for file type output,
Rüdiger Meier <=
bug#9531: md5sum: confusing documentation for file type output, Jim Meyering, 2011/09/17