Bernhard Voelker
<[email protected]> writes:
> 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
None of them handle quoted file names:
$ md5sum a\\b | awk '{print$1}'
\d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e
Andreas.
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