Hi, honourable coreutils developers. Current stable version of coreutils (6.9) has 8(!) utilities which somehow compute or/and check a message digest. They are: 'md5sum', 'sha1sum', 'sha224sum', 'sha256sum', 'sha384sum', 'sha512sum' and finally 'sum' and 'cksum'. It's already a little bit confusing and it seems that it isn't the endpoint yet. There is at least one more under discussion right now - 'md4sum'.
I don't want to say some of them are odd, but in my (humble) opinion there are too many binaries. Why don't we pool them (at least first five, which have the same usage) together in one program and add command line option which will select an algorithm. --- Xandrous _______________________________________________ Bug-coreutils mailing list Bug-coreutils@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils
