Date: Thu, 18 Jan 2007 01:29:44 -0800 From: perryh@pluto.rain.com To: fbsd06@mlists.homeunix.com Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: md5sum is missing, but not entirely Message-ID: <45af3e08.TRLLm0mLU32eXH1d%perryh@pluto.rain.com> In-Reply-To: <20070117174912.106fed49@gumby.homeunix.com> References: <45adc265.ZN%2BZDxnqrBhCmWnC%perryh@pluto.rain.com> <op.tmaffjcgkagcwh@phong.carpetsmoker.net> <20070117174912.106fed49@gumby.homeunix.com>
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> > The command to calculate md5 sums is 'md5', not 'md5sum', > > and it is part of the base. ... > > 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. gmd5sum is indeed from a port, but md5sum does not exist at all on my system, either as an executable or as a manpage. md5 does exist, as both an executable and a manpage. Either md5 or gmd5sum can be used to verify downloads; as someone else mentioned they produce the same results (although formatted differently). > 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 It still seems like a bug that apropos includes "md5sum(1)" in its output, when no such manpage exists.
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