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On 08/05/2022 21:18, Christoph Anton Mitterer wrote:
Hey.
Since on UNIX/Linux it is effectively always binary mode, shouldn't the
(sha|md5)*sum tools default to that, and especially also generate
output with the "*" flag set?
Well they do default to binary mode,
but don't use an explicit flag on UNIX systems
(unless -b is specified).
For compatibility reasons we can't really change thing now,
but note the newer `cksum -a ...` interface which uses
a different format without binary tag.
thanks,
Pádraig
