bug#7313: sha1sum etc, output in base64

[Pádraig Brady]

On 02/11/10 16:20, Pádraig Brady wrote:
> env printf $(sha1sum file | sed 's/ .*//; s/\(..\)/\\x\1/g') | base64

I just dug out an old script of mine that did
low level manipulations like this, and I had used:

openssl dgst -sha1 -binary $file | openssl enc -base64

While that does show there is a need for this,
it also shows there are widely available tools
to do it already.

cheers,
Pádraig.