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Re: [PATCH] md5sum: add an option to change directory
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Assaf Gordon |
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Re: [PATCH] md5sum: add an option to change directory |
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Wed, 20 May 2020 19:47:59 -0600 |
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Hello,
On 2020-05-20 3:15 p.m., Bertrand Jacquin wrote:
In the fashion of make and git, add the ability for all sum tools to
change directory before reading a file.
[...]
$ sha256sum -C /etc fstab
b5d6c0e5e6bc419b134478ad7b3e7c8cc628049876a7772cea469e81e4b0e0e5 fstab
I'm not entirely sure what is the use case,
but GNU "env(1)" already has a '-C/--chdir' option which does
exactly what you want (since version 8.28 / released 2017):
env -C etc sha256sum fstab
Or the (longer) shell construct:
(cd etc && sha256sum fstab)
regards,
- assaf