On Apr 24, 2017, at 2:03 PM, Alexander Pohoyda <alexander.pohoyda@xxxxxxx> wrote:
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> Hi Andreas,
>
> one option is IMHO missing in uuidgen(1) tool -- to dump the GUID in binary form (so that it could be easily Base64-encoded)
>
> It is as simple as this:
> printf("%.16s\n", uuid);
>
> Base64-encoding of GUIDs is very popular these days and there are a number of online tools to do this, but since uuidgen only dumps a serialized string, this could not be Base64 encoded easily.
>
> What's your take on this? Thanks!
I've CC'd your question to linux-ext4@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, since that is
the mailing list for discussing e2fsprogs changes.
My suggestion would be to add a "-b" (or similar) option directly to uuidgen
so that it can do the base64 encoding itself, rather than dumping the UUID
in binary and having to pipe it to another utility.
Cheers, Andreas
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