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From: Niklas Holsti <niklas.holsti@tidorum.invalid>
Subject: Re: GNAT.SHA256 produces result different from sha257sum on Linux
Date: Sat, 4 Nov 2023 18:49:58 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <kqnb1mFnvc6U1@mid.individual.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ui5ms6$3d0f4$1@dont-email.me>

On 2023-11-04 17:09, Jeffrey R.Carter wrote:
> On 2023-11-04 15:39, wvxvw wrote:
>>
>> ❯ ./bin/test_sha --arg foo
>> 2c26b46b68ffc68ff99b453c1d30413413422d706483bfa0f98a5e886266e7ae
>> ❯ echo foo | sha256sum -
>> b5bb9d8014a0f9b1d61e21e796d78dccdf1352f23cd32812f4850b878ae4944c  -
> 
> I think the problem may be that echo adds an LF:
> 
> $ echo foo | hd
> 00000000  66 6f 6f 0a                                       |foo.|
> 
> Since sha256sum expects to work on arbitrary files, it would include the 
> LF in its input.


Some implementations of "echo" accept an option "-n" to suppress the 
trailing newline (LF). The OP could try that option as a quick check of 
this answer (which seems very plausible).

  parent reply	other threads:[~2023-11-04 16:49 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-11-04 14:39 GNAT.SHA256 produces result different from sha257sum on Linux wvxvw
2023-11-04 15:09 ` Jeffrey R.Carter
2023-11-04 16:48   ` wvxvw
2023-11-04 17:53     ` Ben Bacarisse
2023-11-04 19:26       ` wvxvw
2023-11-04 16:49   ` Niklas Holsti [this message]
2023-11-04 17:39     ` Jeffrey R.Carter
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