Re: add --color option to md5sum and shaXsum

[Pádraig Brady]

On 12/24/2013 12:25 PM, Florent Monnier wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> This patch adds a --color option to the commands md5sum and shaXsum.
> The goal is to make it easier to visually identify similarities in a
> list of printed checksums.
> 
> It takes action only if stdout is a tty.
> 
> This patch can be applied on the version 8.22 of the coreutils.
> 

Sorry you've lost me. Why would you want this?
If you wanted to compare hashes wouldn't it be better
to pipe to uniq with something like: md5sum * | uniq --group -w32

Also this doesn't strictly need to be within the *sum utils,
so if not of general use, it might be best done as a separate util
(which could also sort similarly perhaps)?

thanks,
Pádraig.