eg: $ echo 'hello world' | md5sum 6f5902ac237024bdd0c176cb93063dc4 -
What's use is the '-'? Obviously it indicates the file content it taken from the standard input, but is that of any actual use? I'm finding that I always end up having to strip it off so I can isolate the actual hash. It's a minor irritation, but I did wonder if it actually serves any purpose. $ md5sum --version md5sum (GNU coreutils) 8.30 Copyright (C) 2018 Free Software Foundation, Inc. Licence GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <https://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>. This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it. There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law. Written by Ulrich Drepper, Scott Miller and David Madore. dwater
