feature request: ASCII/UTF-8 output

[RalMay]

Thanks for a nifty program!
Unfortunately your output is binary data, not ASCII/UTF-8 which means one cannot use find or grep* in a batch file to check for a specific hash result.

So pls give an option to just output an ASCII/UTF-8 string.

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* workaround:

• create a results file using the switch -t
• use -verify to verify against that result file, use exit code for true/false

[idrassi]

Indeed, DirHash prints output to Windows terminal in UTF-16 mode in order to be able to correcty display Unicode file names.
I will implement a switch to print output in UTF-8 which will help you in your use case.
I will let you known.

[idrassi]

I ended up changing DirHash output format to UTF-8 by default since it doesn't seem to impact the printing of Unicode characters to the console. Here is the commit: 58a666d

I have done tests using find and it works well now. So the new version that I will publish soon will solve your issue without adding any new switch 😀