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RFC: change cksum -b to allow full emulation of older utils
From: |
Pádraig Brady |
Subject: |
RFC: change cksum -b to allow full emulation of older utils |
Date: |
Sat, 8 Jul 2023 15:28:47 +0100 |
User-agent: |
Mozilla Thunderbird |
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.
cheers,
Pádraig
cksum-emulate.patch
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