Script for loop-AES key generation

Lionel Elie Mamane lionel at mamane.lu
Sat Nov 25 18:16:14 CET 2006


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.

-- 
Lionel



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