Re: RFC: cksum --base64/-b support

[Jim Meyering]

On Sun, Jan 29, 2023 at 1:10 PM Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net> wrote:
> On Sun, Jan 29, 2023 at 12:40 PM Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net> wrote:
> ...
> > - I'm inclined to work like the openbsd cksum and accept invocations
> > like "cksum -a sha1x" and "cksum -a sha1b". Any objection?
>
> Actually, I am now **disinclined** to implement this part. It'd make
> sense only if we were able to compute multiple checksums in a single
> invocation.
> Allowing that would require a fundamental redesign, which feels out of
> scope, at least initially.

Here's a proposed patch for that.

cu-cksum-base64.diff
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