md5sum is broken in slackware-current

_GArik_ · 08-09-2012, 11:46 AM

This is weird, but md5sum is not fully functional in my slackware-current installation.

`md5sum -c FILE` works fine if FILE contains only filenames and their hashes. If FILE contains a header like CHECKSUMS.md5 does, then I got tons of errors messages:

Quote:

# md5sum -c CHECKSUMS.md5 2>&1 | head
md5sum: ./ANNOUNCE.13_37: No such file or directory
./ANNOUNCE.13_37: FAILED open or read
md5sum: ./BOOTING.TXT: No such file or directory
./BOOTING.TXT: FAILED open or read
md5sum: ./CHANGES_AND_HINTS.TXT: No such file or directory
./CHANGES_AND_HINTS.TXT: FAILED open or read
md5sum: ./COPYING: No such file or directory
./COPYING: FAILED open or read
md5sum: ./COPYING3: No such file or directory
./COPYING3: FAILED open or read

Does anybody have the same issue?

Alien Bob · 08-09-2012, 12:30 PM

Please read this thread from February where the issue was discussed which you are probably seeing now for the first time: http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...option-928539/

Eric

volkerdi · 08-09-2012, 01:21 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by _GArik_

This is weird, but md5sum is not fully functional in my slackware-current installation.

`md5sum -c FILE` works fine if FILE contains only filenames and their hashes. If FILE contains a header like CHECKSUMS.md5 does, then I got tons of errors messages:

Ironically, the header that's breaking things also contains your answer.

Quote:

To test all these files, use this command:

tail +13 CHECKSUMS.md5 | md5sum -c --quiet - | less

That'll lop the header off the file before it is fed to md5sum.

_GArik_ · 08-09-2012, 02:40 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by volkerdi

Ironically, the header that's breaking things also contains your answer.

OMg! Nice solution. Thank you for the help.