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bug#31493: please add null-terminated line output for sha256sum, sha1sum
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Pádraig Brady |
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bug#31493: please add null-terminated line output for sha256sum, sha1sum, etc |
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Fri, 18 May 2018 10:09:30 -0700 |
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On 18/05/18 07:49, Daniel Kahn Gillmor wrote:
> So i'm proposing a flag -z, --zero-terminated for these tools that
> alters the output (and input) format, to use NUL chars instead of
> newlines. presumably when that flag is used, the emitted data should
> *not* be backslash-escaped.
This is a good suggestion I think.
`...sum | sort` is a common operation for example.
I'll do this for the upcoming release.
cheers,
Pádraig