Hello, On Wed, Apr 26, 2023 at 08:30:01PM +0000, Albretch Mueller wrote: > On 4/26/23, Dan Ritter <d...@randomstring.org> wrote: > > The only characters used in the sha256 hash itself are [a-f] and > > [0-9] > > Yes, I knew that; that is why I could not understand why sha256sum > was being "courteous" to me.
The man page is very clear on what the output will be, and just running it on a few files should also make it obvious to you, also, all the other sha*sum and md5sum utilities work pretty much the same way. So I don't know why this comes as a surprise, but OK. > OK, now I see why cutting off the string on the first space that > appears is safe. I never saw such cases because I always used sha*sums > on files. But it does the same thing with files… Thanks, Andy -- https://bitfolk.com/ -- No-nonsense VPS hosting
