> I don't see any major problem why something like `hashsum > ALGORITHM' wouldn't work though, `md5sum' could be the same as > `hashsum md5'. And then md5sum could be a shell script, or just > a simple program that calls `hashsum md5'.
Except that since the *sum utilities operate on arbitrary files, you would need it to be `hashsum --md5', ie. make the algorithm an option rather than the first argument. Why not just: hashsum ALGORITHM [FILE]? A optional hashing algorithm seems pointless for this. _______________________________________________ Bug-coreutils mailing list Bug-coreutils@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils
