Re: md5sum outputs '-' when using stdin

[Bernhard Voelker]

On 8/26/19 10:44 AM, Erik Auerswald wrote:
> 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 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