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sha1sum etc, output in base64

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Message #8 received at 7313 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Pádraig Brady <P <at> draigBrady.com>
To: Caleb Cushing <xenoterracide <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 7313 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#7313: sha1sum etc, output in base64
Date: Tue, 02 Nov 2010 16:20:05 +0000

On 02/11/10 13:16, Caleb Cushing wrote:
> I'd like to be able to do something like this
> 
> sha1sum --base64
> 
> and instead of getting a hex representation get a base64 representation.
> 
> An alternative might be
> 
> sha1sum --raw | base64
> 
> obviously this applies to md5sum, sha512sum, etc

This is one of those border line cases.
I'm 40:60 against adding it as it seems easy enough
to acheive using existing tools:

env printf $(sha1sum file | sed 's/ .*//; s/\(..\)/\\x\1/g') | base64

Note using env above is to bypass the inbuilt printf
which doesn't support \x on dash for example.

cheers,
Pádraig.

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