Why does this command prepend useless redundant information?
$ openssl md5 (echo foo)
MD5(/dev/fd/63)= d3b07384d113edec49eaa6238ad5ff00
^ ^
I just cannot fathom why this was done. This is just all around
terrible design. Not only is this information redundant and entirely
On Mon, Jul 18, 2011 at 4:05 PM, Coda Highland chighl...@gmail.com wrote:
On Mon, Jul 18, 2011 at 2:41 PM, Patrick Donnelly batr...@batbytes.com
wrote:
Why does this command prepend useless redundant information?
$ openssl md5 (echo foo)
MD5(/dev/fd/63)= d3b07384d113edec49eaa6238ad5ff00
To answer your initial question, consider the case of $ openssl md5
*.txt, where each line needs to have that information. The new format
makes the output consistent regardless of manner of implementation,
which from a future-proofing standpoint makes more sense than changing
the output
On 18 Jul 2011, at 1:25 PM, Patrick Donnelly wrote:
Are you seriously suggesting that parsing the md5sums of multiple
files from the output of openssl md5 *.txt is a sensible use case?
It's not just sensible, it's fairly common. The DIGEST(filename)=hexhexhex...
output style is in imitation
