-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 According to Alfred M. Szmidt on 4/9/2007 5:13 AM: > 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. - -- Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well! Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (Cygwin) Comment: Public key at home.comcast.net/~ericblake/eblake.gpg Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFGGiwC84KuGfSFAYARAjyAAJ9iATKrcx5BBIjyg4Jx3Fx+OeidYwCgosU8 71mesJ9X6l+luMLzoZKVetg= =JUkm -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Bug-coreutils mailing list Bug-coreutils@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils
