Re: Bug#325205: please provide sha256sum, sha384sum and sha512sum

[Jim Meyering]

Paul Eggert <address@hidden> wrote:
> address@hidden (Eric Blake) writes:
>> Would it make more sense to have a single sha utility
>
> That's just what I was about to suggest, except why not unify all the
> coreutils checksumming utilities?

I can see the appeal, but I like the ``one task, one tool''
philosophy, too.

How about if we provide separate binaries for now, and then if
someone contributes a general, umbrella-style checksumming tool,
we can simply add that too?