On Sat, Jul 8, 2023 at 7:28 AM Pádraig Brady <p...@draigbrady.com> wrote: > It would be nice to be able to support users who want to replace all > the *sum utilities with a script that did: > > exec cksum -a <algo> --untagged "$@" > > To that end, it would be good to support all the options of the older utils. > This is a bit awkward with --base64 added in the last few months, as that > also added the short -b option. However it's only a few months released, > so it's probably not too onerous to change. > > The attached makes the change, which I'll augment with NEWS and tests/ upon > agreement.
Good idea. I agree that the added value outweighs the cost of divergence with OpenBSD cksum's -b (https://man.openbsd.org/cksum.1) One nit: the in-comment reference to -b needs to say --base64, too (in tests/cksum/cksum-base64.pl): # Ensure that each of the above works with -b: (map {my ($h,$v)= @$_; my $o=fmt $h,$v; - [$h, "-ba $h", {IN=>{f=>''}}, {OUT=>"$o\n"}]} @pairs), + [$h, "--base64 -a $h", {IN=>{f=>''}}, {OUT=>"$o\n"}]} @pairs),
