Direct files reading

[johnd0e]

E.g.

ut hash md5 --file somefilename

I'm aware of current way involving < redirect from shell, still having more straightforward way would be nice, because ut can be executed without shell.

[ksdme]

This is interesting, I wonder what the best ergonomics here are.

That tool does accept a positional string at the end, but that is interpreted as the literal value that needs to be hashed, not a file path. And, now that I am saying this out loud, I have never used this tool with a literal string. Maybe there are use cases out there, but it sounds like easily be replaced with a simple pipe and stdin based invocation.

• - for stdin and the positional string being interpreted as file path
• - for stdin and the positional string meaning file path if --file flag is passed

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