/usr/bin/md5sum belongs to dpkg, not coreutils. The latter's is renamed md5sum.textutils. The two behave differently wrt '-v': the older, dpkg version requires it to see output of the '-c' option, while the newer coreutils version, does not. Why doesn't Debian default to the newer version? Best regards, Eric -- No no no, my fish's name is Eric, Eric the fish. He's an halibut. I am not a looney! Why should I be tarred with the epithet looney merely because I have a pet halibut?