On Tue, Dec 20, 2016 at 6:31 PM Pádraig Brady <P@draigbrady.com> wrote:
On 20/12/16 22:28, Christopher wrote:
> What's with the new sources format?
> The old format, I could do `md5sum -c sources`
> Why not make the new format with SHA512 follow the same pattern, so I could do: `shasum -c sources` or `sha512sum -c sources`?
>
> Is there any standard command-line tool to parse this new format, or do I just gotta grep/awk/bash my way through it?

As far as I can see it's using the BSD tagged format,
which the coreutils sha512sum command can parse.
I.E. the following format is supported since v8.20 (2012-10-23)

  SHA512 (filename) = ...

cheers,
Pádraig

Ah, okay, my mistake. `sha512sum -c sources` works fine. I accidentally ran `shasum -c sources` twice!

Thanks! I wasn't previously aware of this format being a standard anywhere. `man sha512sum` has enlightened me :)
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Christopher