From owner-freebsd-arch Sat Nov 6 19:58: 6 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from ns1.yes.no (ns1.yes.no [195.204.136.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1ED2F14E15 for ; Sat, 6 Nov 1999 19:57:57 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from eivind@bitbox.follo.net) Received: from bitbox.follo.net (bitbox.follo.net [195.204.143.218]) by ns1.yes.no (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id EAA20797 for ; Sun, 7 Nov 1999 04:57:56 +0100 (CET) Received: (from eivind@localhost) by bitbox.follo.net (8.8.8/8.8.6) id EAA15151 for freebsd-arch@freebsd.org; Sun, 7 Nov 1999 04:57:56 +0100 (MET) Received: from mail.xmission.com (mail.xmission.com [198.60.22.22]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 37ED014C35; Sat, 6 Nov 1999 19:57:46 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from wes@softweyr.com) Received: from [204.68.178.39] (helo=softweyr.com) by mail.xmission.com with esmtp (Exim 2.12 #2) id 11kJSb-0000wp-00; Sat, 6 Nov 1999 20:57:45 -0700 Message-ID: <3824F8B7.7DCEAFD1@softweyr.com> Date: Sat, 06 Nov 1999 20:57:43 -0700 From: Wes Peters Organization: Softweyr LLC X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 3.1-RELEASE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: obrien@freebsd.org Cc: arch@freebsd.org Subject: Re: new MD5 option References: <19991106133558.A5539@dragon.nuxi.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG David O'Brien wrote: > > I am adding an option to md5 to reverse the order of output. > > From: > MD5 (/COPYRIGHT) = 7df8bc77dcee71382ea73eb0ec6a9243 > > to: > MD5 7df8bc77dcee71382ea73eb0ec6a9243 /COPYRIGHT > > The reson for this addition is to aid visual diffs. They are much easier > if the MD5 hashes are nicely lined up. Good idea. > My question is what flag to use. "-r" for reversed output? "-v" for > visual diff? I'd prefer -r, since -v generally means "verbose", but don't feel strongly about it. ;^) -- "Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?" Wes Peters Softweyr LLC wes@softweyr.com http://softweyr.com/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message