Oct. 16, 2015
9:07 a.m.
On 16/10/2015 09:39, Paul Eggert wrote:
To generate the SHA-512 checksums in the tz release announcements, I use the GNU coreutils implementation of the sha512sum command, like the following shell command:
sha512sum tzcode2015g.tar.gz tzdata2015g.tar.gz
Would it be worth using the -b option to treat the input as a binary file? I know there is no difference between text and binary files on UNIX-like systems, but this marks the file as binary (by prefixing the filename with an asterisk) on the output line for the benefit of non-UNIX-like systems. -- -=( Ian Abbott @ MEV Ltd. E-mail: <abbotti@mev.co.uk> )=- -=( Web: http://www.mev.co.uk/ )=-