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please add null-terminated line output for sha256sum, sha1sum, etc

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From: Pádraig Brady <P <at> draigBrady.com>
To: Daniel Kahn Gillmor <dkg <at> fifthhorseman.net>, 31493 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#31493: please add null-terminated line output for sha256sum, 
 sha1sum, etc
Date: Fri, 18 May 2018 10:09:30 -0700

On 18/05/18 07:49, Daniel Kahn Gillmor wrote:
> So i'm proposing a flag -z, --zero-terminated for these tools that
> alters the output (and input) format, to use NUL chars instead of
> newlines.  presumably when that flag is used, the emitted data should
> *not* be backslash-escaped.

This is a good suggestion I think.
`...sum | sort` is a common operation for example.
I'll do this for the upcoming release.

cheers,
Pádraig

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