Re: add --color option to md5sum and shaXsum

[Florent Monnier]

2014-01-14 7:05 UTC−08:00, Pádraig Brady wrote:
> On 12/25/2013 01:00 PM, Florent Monnier wrote:
>> 2013/12/24, Pádraig Brady wrote:
>>> On 12/24/2013 12:25 PM, Florent Monnier wrote:
>>>> Hello,
>>>>
>>>> This patch adds a --color option to the commands md5sum and shaXsum.
>>>> The goal is to make it easier to visually identify similarities in a
>>>> list of printed checksums.
[...]
> ... A separate tool could have more options like a larger color palette,
> different formatting options than just directly coloring the checksum, ...
>
>> The colordiff wrapper is written with Perl (5 if I'm not mistaken).
[...]
>>
>> In your opinions, which programming/scripting language could be
>> appropriate, beside perl, for writting such a tool?
>
> Any general purpose language with good string handling,
> for example python.

Hi Pádraig,

Python seems indeed to be a quite popular language.

And if it was Perl, do you think it would be better with Perl 5 or 6?

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Cheers
Florent