2019-08-25 21:03:33 +0100, Stephane Chazelas:
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> FWIW, the ast-open implementation of "wc" doesn't output that
> "-" and doesn't treat "-" as meaning stdin. If you want to
> "md5sum -c" stdin there, you need to use "/dev/stdin" instead of
> "-".
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Sorry, I meant "the ast-open implementati
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
Hi,
On Sun, Aug 25, 2019 at 09:03:33PM +0100, Stephane Chazelas wrote:
> [...]
> 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 an
2019-08-23 10:41:01 +0100, coreut...@fastmail.com:
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> $ 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?
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It is used by md5sum -c.
