Hi all, On Sat, Nov 25, 2006 at 06:16:14PM +0100, Lionel Elie Mamane wrote: > On Sat, Nov 25, 2006 at 03:20:21PM +0100, Max Vozeler wrote: > > > On Wed, Nov 22, 2006 at 11:07:10PM +0100, Richard Zidlicky wrote: > >> why strings? "grep -a" works since ages and saves one command. > > > The attached patch changes the script to use grep -a (which is not > > in POSIX/SuSv3 or busybox grep, but should generally be available on > > normal systems) > > I don't get the point of combining -a and -q; the effect of -a is that > even if the file is binary, "lines" that match are printed on > stdout. -q tells it not to output anything. So as far as I > understand,"-a -q" is the same as "-q". Which is in SuSv3. Good point. I wonder why I didn't notice that :-) It now uses plain grep -q. BTW: We maintain the keygen script in an SVN repository; You can always find the latest version there: http://svn.debian.org/wsvn/pkg-loop-aes/trunk/loop-aes-utils/debian/loop-aes-keygen?op=file&rev=0&sc=0 cheers, Max - Linux-crypto: cryptography in and on the Linux system Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/linux-crypto/