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27.Dd January 20, 1997
28.Dt CKDIST 1
29.Os
30.Sh NAME
31.Nm ckdist
32.Nd check software distributions
33.Sh SYNOPSIS
34.Nm ckdist
35.Bq Fl airsx
36.Bq Fl d Ar dir
37.Bq Fl n Ar name
38.Bq Fl t Ar type
39.Ar file ...
40.Sh DESCRIPTION
41The
42.Nm ckdist
43utility reads "checksum" files (which are assumed to specify components
44of a software distribution) and verifies the integrity of the
45distribution by validating the checksum of each component file.
46Both MD5 (128-bit "message digest") and .inf (32-bit CRC) checksum
47formats are supported.
48.Pp
49The
50.Ar file
51operands may refer to regular files or to directories.  Regular files
52named "md5", or which have an ".md5" or an ".inf" extension, are
53assumed to be of the implied type, otherwise format is determined from
54content.  If a directory is specified, it is searched for
55appropriately-named files only.
56.Pp
57Options are as follows:
58.Bl -tag -width 8n -offset indent
59.It Fl a
60Report on all distribution components, not just those in respect of
61which errors are detected.
62.It Fl i
63Ignore missing distribution components.
64.It Fl r
65Search specified directories recursively.
66.It Fl s
67Suppress complaints about inaccessible checksum files and directories.
68.It Fl x
69Verify the existence of distribution components (and also check sizes,
70in the case of .inf files), but omit the more time-consuming step of
71actually computing and comparing checksums.
72.It Fl d Ar dir
73Look for distribution components in the directory
74.Ar dir .
75.It Fl n Ar name
76Access distribution components using the filename
77.Ar name .
78(When accessing .inf file components, append the appropriate
79extension to the filename.)
80.It Fl t Ar type
81Assume that all specified checksum files are of the format
82.Ar type ,
83and search directories only for files in this format (where
84.Ar type
85is either "md5" or "inf").
86.El
87.Sh SEE ALSO
88cksum(1),  md5(1)
89.Sh DIAGNOSTICS
90Exit status is 0 if no errors were detected, 1 if errors were found in
91a distribution, and 2 if usage errors, inaccessible input files, or
92other system errors were encountered.
93.Sh NOTES
94Both BSD and DOS versions of
95.Nm ckdist
96are available.
97