On 04/19/2014 04:48 AM, Bob Proulx wrote:
> Rather than cut and using an exact number of characters I prefer to
> use awk to cut by fields. That way it works with all of the *sum
> programs.
>
> $ md5sum /dev/null | awk '{print$1}'
And there are many other ways:
# using the field option of cut:
$ md5sum /dev/null | src/cut -d ' ' -f 1
d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e
$ md5sum /dev/null | sed 's/ .*$//'
d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e
etc.
Therefore 80:20 against a new option from me, too.
Have a nice day,
Berny
