Hello, On 2020-05-20 3:15 p.m., Bertrand Jacquin wrote:
In the fashion of make and git, add the ability for all sum tools to change directory before reading a file.
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$ sha256sum -C /etc fstab b5d6c0e5e6bc419b134478ad7b3e7c8cc628049876a7772cea469e81e4b0e0e5 fstab
I'm not entirely sure what is the use case, but GNU "env(1)" already has a '-C/--chdir' option which does exactly what you want (since version 8.28 / released 2017): env -C etc sha256sum fstab Or the (longer) shell construct: (cd etc && sha256sum fstab) regards, - assaf
