On 12/24/2013 12:25 PM, Florent Monnier wrote: > Hello, > > This patch adds a --color option to the commands md5sum and shaXsum. > The goal is to make it easier to visually identify similarities in a > list of printed checksums. > > It takes action only if stdout is a tty. > > This patch can be applied on the version 8.22 of the coreutils. >
Sorry you've lost me. Why would you want this? If you wanted to compare hashes wouldn't it be better to pipe to uniq with something like: md5sum * | uniq --group -w32 Also this doesn't strictly need to be within the *sum utils, so if not of general use, it might be best done as a separate util (which could also sort similarly perhaps)? thanks, Pádraig.
