[Libguestfs] [PATCH 9/9] tests/qemu: isolate MD5 calculation in an own shared function

[Richard W.M. Jones]

On Tue, Nov 04, 2014 at 04:35:32PM +0100, Pino Toscano wrote:
> +
> +do_md5 ()
> +{
> +  case "$(uname)" in
> +    Linux)
> +      md5sum "$1" | awk '{print $1}'
> +      ;;
> +    *)
> +      echo "$0: unknown method to calculate MD5 of file on $(uname)"
> +      exit 1
> +      ;;
> +  esac
> +}

It's probably better to do something like:

if md5sum --help >/dev/null 2>&1; then
  md5sum ...
elif md5 --help >/dev/null 2>&1; then
  md5 ...
else
  echo "$0: don't know how to calculate md5 sum on this host"
  exit 1
fi

?

Rich.

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