> On 2009/05/13 10:40, Otto Moerbeek wrote: > > > > > > I did some research on different operating systems regarding checksumming > > > and > > > found that solaris had a nice option called "digest -l" which prints the > > > available algorithms and exits. I wrote this functionality into cksum(1) > > > that you can have if you want it. Patch follows. > > > > > > -peter > > > > I kinda like this, but comments inline. > > it might be nice to display the list of algorithms when an unsupported > algorithm is chosen, e.g. > > $ cksum -a foo > cksum: unknown algorithm "foo", available algorithms: > cksum, md4, md5, rmd160, sha1, sha256, sha384, sha512, sum, sysvsum. > usage: cksum [-bpqrtx] [-a algorithms] [-c [checklist ...]] [-o 1 | 2] > [-s string] [file ...]
I don't see why that is neccessary. Who is that for? Is it for the people who didn't install the manual set, or for the people who don't want to read the manuals?
