Re: [PATCH] cksum: add --raw option to output a binary digest

[Pádraig Brady]

On 04/02/2023 15:45, Rob Landley wrote:
> On 2/4/23 07:51, Pádraig Brady wrote:
> > --raw output is the most composable format, and also is a
> > robust way to discard the file name without parsing (escaped) output.
>
> Just FYI, 9 years ago I taught toybox md5sum/sha1sum to use -b as "brief", and
> the same option has been in our sha3sum and so on ever since:
>
>    https://github.com/landley/toybox/commit/2682551a4b19

I considered -b as a short option,
but didn't since it may be confused with coreutils' *sum -b
and as you say toybox's *sum -b means something different again.
Also unless we're trying to be compatible coreutils tries
to only add --long-options for new functionality.

> Did cut -DF ever wind up in a release?

It's on my list to review for the upcoming release.

thanks,
Pádraig.