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Re: sha256sum --text generating blank spaces and hyphens?

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Hello,

On Wed, Apr 26, 2023 at 08:30:01PM +0000, Albretch Mueller wrote:
> On 4/26/23, Dan Ritter <dsr@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

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sha256sum --text generating blank spaces and hyphens? Albretch Mueller <lbrtchx@gmail.com> - 2023-04-26 09:50 +0200
  Re: sha256sum --text generating blank spaces and hyphens? <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2023-04-26 10:20 +0200
    Re: sha256sum --text generating blank spaces and hyphens? Albretch Mueller <lbrtchx@gmail.com> - 2023-04-26 16:40 +0200
      Re: sha256sum --text generating blank spaces and hyphens? Nicolas George <george@nsup.org> - 2023-04-26 16:50 +0200
        Re: sha256sum --text generating blank spaces and hyphens? Max Nikulin <manikulin@gmail.com> - 2023-04-28 04:30 +0200
          Re: sha256sum --text generating blank spaces and hyphens? Nicolas George <george@nsup.org> - 2023-04-28 10:10 +0200
            Re: sha256sum --text generating blank spaces and hyphens? Max Nikulin <manikulin@gmail.com> - 2023-04-28 18:50 +0200
              Re: sha256sum --text generating blank spaces and hyphens? Nicolas George <george@nsup.org> - 2023-04-29 11:00 +0200
                Re: sha256sum --text generating blank spaces and hyphens? Max Nikulin <manikulin@gmail.com> - 2023-04-29 14:20 +0200
                Re: sha256sum --text generating blank spaces and hyphens? Nicolas George <george@nsup.org> - 2023-04-29 14:30 +0200
      Re: sha256sum --text generating blank spaces and hyphens? Dan Ritter <dsr@randomstring.org> - 2023-04-26 17:10 +0200
      Re: sha256sum --text generating blank spaces and hyphens? David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2023-04-26 17:10 +0200
      Re: sha256sum --text generating blank spaces and hyphens? "Thomas Schmitt" <scdbackup@gmx.net> - 2023-04-26 17:10 +0200
      Re: sha256sum --text generating blank spaces and hyphens? <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2023-04-26 19:00 +0200
        Re: sha256sum --text generating blank spaces and hyphens? Albretch Mueller <lbrtchx@gmail.com> - 2023-04-26 22:40 +0200
          Re: sha256sum --text generating blank spaces and hyphens? Albretch Mueller <lbrtchx@gmail.com> - 2023-04-26 23:10 +0200
          Re: sha256sum --text generating blank spaces and hyphens? Andy Smith <andy@strugglers.net> - 2023-04-26 23:50 +0200
  Re: sha256sum --text generating blank spaces and hyphens? Andy Smith <andy@strugglers.net> - 2023-04-26 12:50 +0200
  Re: sha256sum --text generating blank spaces and hyphens? Jeffrey Walton <noloader@gmail.com> - 2023-04-26 18:00 +0200
  Re: sha256sum --text generating blank spaces and hyphens? David Christensen <dpchrist@holgerdanske.com> - 2023-04-27 00:50 +0200
    Re: sha256sum --text generating blank spaces and hyphens? Nicolas George <george@nsup.org> - 2023-04-27 00:50 +0200
      Re: sha256sum --text generating blank spaces and hyphens? David Christensen <dpchrist@holgerdanske.com> - 2023-04-27 06:10 +0200
        Re: sha256sum --text generating blank spaces and hyphens? Max Nikulin <manikulin@gmail.com> - 2023-04-27 08:00 +0200
          Re: sha256sum --text generating blank spaces and hyphens? Albretch Mueller <lbrtchx@gmail.com> - 2023-04-27 09:30 +0200
        Re: sha256sum --text generating blank spaces and hyphens? Nicolas George <george@nsup.org> - 2023-04-27 10:10 +0200
          Re: sha256sum --text generating blank spaces and hyphens? David Christensen <dpchrist@holgerdanske.com> - 2023-04-27 17:20 +0200
            Re: sha256sum --text generating blank spaces and hyphens? Albretch Mueller <lbrtchx@gmail.com> - 2023-05-02 02:10 +0200
    Re: sha256sum --text generating blank spaces and hyphens? Albretch Mueller <lbrtchx@gmail.com> - 2023-04-27 01:30 +0200
      Re: sha256sum --text generating blank spaces and hyphens? David Christensen <dpchrist@holgerdanske.com> - 2023-04-27 06:30 +0200

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