On 07/24/2012 12:18 PM, Ondrej Oprala wrote: > Hello, > I'd like to consult this RFE > http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-coreutils/2009-11/msg00341.html and > find out if my proposed solutions would be satisfactory. There shouldn't be > a problem with printing the > hash-type prefix before printing the generated hash. My concerns are more > with the hash utils' logic > during hash check. Should the utils recognize the prefix/prefixless version > of the input on their own > or should they require the proposed '-l' switch during the checking as > well? Personally, I'd lean more > towards the idea of automatic prefix recognition, which shouldn't be too > hard to implement and would probably > feel more natural to everyone. > Cheers, > Ondrej Oprala
A fairly sensible idea. Generating the tags would need to be optional of course. I vote for --tag. Consuming the tags with --check should be automatic. Tags could be useful too if we ever decided to consolidate to a single checksum util. cheers, Pádraig.
