On 27/04/10 22:42, Alan Curry wrote: > In the dark ages before the bug tracker (i.e. November), a message was sent: > > http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-coreutils/2009-11/msg00206.html > > providing an RFC4648 base32 output option for the cryptographic hash > utilities. I'm sending this now to > > 1. endorse the idea > 2. get it a bug number so it might be noticed
I'm sorry for not responding. I was sure I did because I did a bit of searching and thought that this was specific to Internet Archive's tools and so not appropriate for inclusion. Could you give examples of where you would find this useful? I also notice that it was easy enough to write base32 wrappers for these tools: md5sum ... | perl -anle 'use Convert::Base32;\ $h32=uc(encode_base32(pack("H40", $F[0]))); print "$h32 $F[1]";' cheers, Pádraig.