Sam Ravnborg wrote: > > I did a quick attempt to integrate it in the Makefile - not pretty. > So I dropped that idea. > > It is mainly that we should not fill up scripts/ with small > undocumented scripts. > > Could you add something like this in the top of the file: > > # Find the sum of the size of all files specified and > # output the size as an escaped hex string. > # > # Sample: > # $ ls -l foo > # $ -rw-rw-r-- 1 xxx xxx 146 May 8 22:28 foo > # $ bin_size foo > # $ \\x92\\x00\\x00\\x00 > # 146 equals 92 hex > OK, I see your point (especially since that's not what it does.) To be honest, how ugly would it be to get a C program in here? Doing this in shell is horrid, and people tend to whine about Perl (which is perfect for this kind of job.) -hpa
