[rock-devel] [SM-2006042709405218849] Applied by teha

[Clifford Wolf]

On Wed, May 03, 2006 at 07:41:22PM +0200, Benjamin Schieder wrote:
> Yes. It's just that md5sum was the easiest way I could think of to convert
> anything to a hex value (which is what dmsetup expects). Do you know a (simple?)
> method of converting arbitrary strings to hexh?

Example given:
echo $( head -c128 /dev/urandom | hexdump | cut -s -f2- -d' ' | tr -d '\n '; )

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