Debian / Redhat's md5sum options differ: which one is original

[Johann Spies <jspies@sun.ac.za>]

On debian you can do the following:

md5sum -vc MD5SUMS

but not on Redhat and Mandrake.  I don't know about other
distributions.

Is the -v switch a Debian peculiarity?  If it is, why would Debian
create its own standard in this case making portability of programs
much more difficult?

Regards

Johann
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