On 18 Jul 2011, at 1:25 PM, Patrick Donnelly wrote: > Are you seriously suggesting that parsing the md5sums of multiple > files from the output of "openssl md5 *.txt" is a sensible use case?
It's not just sensible, it's fairly common. The DIGEST(filename)=hexhexhex... output style is in imitation of other tools, like md5sum. I agree that this change is an unnecessary annoyance. IMHO it would be better for openssl to emit the bare digest unless multiple files are specified or an option is used on the command line. > On Mon, Jul 18, 2011 at 4:05 PM, Coda Highland <chighl...@gmail.com> wrote: >> My question is why you're depending on the output format of "openssl >> md5" in the first place. md5sum is almost as commonly available and is >> much more amenable to shell scripting, "Almost" indeed. I often use openssl in shell scripts because it's more reliably available across operating systems. ______________________________________________________________________ OpenSSL Project http://www.openssl.org Development Mailing List openssl-dev@openssl.org Automated List Manager majord...@openssl.org
