[PATCH] D83411: Use md5 -q for HashProgramOutput.sh, to show only the checksum.

Dimitry Andric via Phabricator via llvm-commits llvm-commits at lists.llvm.org
Fri Jul 31 06:11:51 PDT 2020


dim added inline comments.


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Comment at: HashProgramOutput.sh:23
 else
     $md5cmd < $1.bak | cut -d' ' -f 1 > $1
 fi
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serge-sans-paille wrote:
> dim wrote:
> > serge-sans-paille wrote:
> > > Why no silencing that one too?
> > With the BSD (and macOS) `md5` command, the `-q` option is not really "silencing", but it prints out only the checksum in that case:
> > 
> > ```
> >      -q      Quiet mode - only the checksum is printed out.  Overrides the -r option.
> > ```
> > 
> > GNU coreutils `md5sum` does not have an equivalent option: you must always parse the standard output, and take the first printed field as the checksum.
> > 
> > Note that GNU `md5sum` indeed has a `--quiet` option, but its meaning is rather different: it can only be used in `--check` mode, and then its effect is that it does not show `OK` for each correctly verified input file.
> > 
> Then your change will make `md5sum` fail when the GNU version is used? I must be missing something :-)
Yes, you are missing that I didn't change anything for GNU md5sum, only for the BSD/mac `md5` command. :) Normally its output is something like:

```% md5 foo
MD5 (foo) = d3b07384d113edec49eaa6238ad5ff00
```

but that makes it more difficult to parse out just the checksum. This is what the `-q` option is for.



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