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Re: Bug#325205: please provide sha256sum, sha384sum and sha512sum
From: |
Jim Meyering |
Subject: |
Re: Bug#325205: please provide sha256sum, sha384sum and sha512sum |
Date: |
Sat, 27 Aug 2005 21:23:25 +0200 |
Paul Eggert <address@hidden> wrote:
> address@hidden (Eric Blake) writes:
>> Would it make more sense to have a single sha utility
>
> That's just what I was about to suggest, except why not unify all the
> coreutils checksumming utilities?
I can see the appeal, but I like the ``one task, one tool''
philosophy, too.
How about if we provide separate binaries for now, and then if
someone contributes a general, umbrella-style checksumming tool,
we can simply add that too?