On 8/26/19 10:44 AM, Erik Auerswald wrote:
On Sun, Aug 25, 2019 at 09:03:33PM +0100, Stephane Chazelas wrote:
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Maybe --quiet could be used to skip outputting file names.
I don't think overloading --quiet this way is helpful.
Changing *sum's output format should use a new option IMHO (if one wants
to add this functionality and the maintainers do not object).
This has already been discussed:
https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/rejected_requests.html#checksum
"*sum --no-filename to only output the checksum.
Postprocessing the output was deemed sufficient"
... pointing at:
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/coreutils/2014-04/msg00025.html
Have a nice day,
Berny
