On 02/11/10 13:16, Caleb Cushing wrote: > I'd like to be able to do something like this > > sha1sum --base64 > > and instead of getting a hex representation get a base64 representation. > > An alternative might be > > sha1sum --raw | base64 > > obviously this applies to md5sum, sha512sum, etc
This is one of those border line cases. I'm 40:60 against adding it as it seems easy enough to acheive using existing tools: env printf $(sha1sum file | sed 's/ .*//; s/\(..\)/\\x\1/g') | base64 Note using env above is to bypass the inbuilt printf which doesn't support \x on dash for example. cheers, Pádraig.
