Date: Wed, 17 Jan 2007 17:49:12 +0000 From: RW <fbsd06@mlists.homeunix.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: md5sum is missing, but not entirely Message-ID: <20070117174912.106fed49@gumby.homeunix.com> In-Reply-To: <op.tmaffjcgkagcwh@phong.carpetsmoker.net> References: <45adc265.ZN%2BZDxnqrBhCmWnC%perryh@pluto.rain.com> <op.tmaffjcgkagcwh@phong.carpetsmoker.net>
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On Wed, 17 Jan 2007 07:36:30 -0000 "Martin Tournoij" <carpetsmoker@xs4all.nl> wrote: > The command to calculate md5 sums is 'md5', not 'md5sum', and it is > part of the base. > > On my system (6.2-RC2) > apropos md5 | grep sum: > md5(1), sha1(1), sha256(1), rmd160(1) - calculate a message-digest > fingerprint (checksum) for a file. > > Not sure why apropos md5 shows md5sum and gmd5sum (g for gnu?), maybe > it's from a port. > I also suspect that gmd5sum is a link to md5sum or vice versa. The coreutils package installs the GNU utilities that form the basis of Linux distributions - grep, chmod etc. Since most of these names clash with the FreeBSD base system, the binaries all get renamed with a "g" prefix. The GNU docs still internally refer to them with their original names e.g. "man gmd5sum" will refer to md5sum
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