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@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ xsum - Compute and check Xsum message digests .IR word-size ] [-Z .IR squeeze-count ] -[-vx] +[-vxz] .RI [ file \ ...] .SH DESCRIPTION Print or check Xsum checksums. If no file @@ -40,14 +40,24 @@ should be formated as the output of this program, or similarly. This is not going to work if any of the filenames in the input files starts with a regular blank space or horizontal tab space, or if they -contain a line feed, carriage return or form feed. +contain a line feed, carriage return or form feed, +unless the +.B -z +option is also used. +.TP +.B -v +Print the hashing parameters. .TP .B -x Convert input files from hexadecimal for to binary form before calculating the checksums. .TP -.B -v -Print the hashing parameters. +.B -z +Lines end with NUL instead of LF. If used with +.BR -c , +this applies to read files (not the output), but it will +also apply more strict parsing and allow any whitespace +in file names. .P The following options change the hashing parameters: .TP |