Anthony Towns writes ("Re: Bug#341839: Call for vote: coreutils: md5sum output format"):
> This horse has bolted already.
>
> ] * Don't worry if md5sum from stdin adds a " -" after the md5sum. Should
> ] make debootstrap more usable on non-Debian Linuxes.
> ] -- Anthony Towns <aj@azure.humbug.org.au> Mon, 25 Jun 2001 18:38:35 +1000
debootstrap is far from the only script that needs to deal with the
output from md5sum.
Ian.