On Sunday 17 September 2006 00:00, Robert Connolly wrote: > I'm not much of an sh scripter. I think a shell script would be > better than patching Coreutils to use libcrypto. OpenSSL also
Why? > supports a few other digest algorithms. A single script could have > md5sum/sha1sum/ripemd160sum symlinks to it, using: I happen to agree with the FSF that programs should not change their behaviour because their name has been changed, but that's just personal preference. I think there should be an override option that selects the digest independently of the executable name, at least. Alex :-) -- Pippin Computer Monkey to the Pelican www.oxrev.org.uk, www.corpusjcr.org, www.rev.org.uk
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