On Thu, Jul 28, 2005 at 08:36:51PM -0700, Dave Yost wrote: > There should be options a la wc to select which of the three columns > of output you want, the sum, the size, and/or the name. > > cksum --sum > > is what you want when you're using it in a script. Otherwise you > have to mess with the output to extract just the sum.
Well, you're already processing the output if you have a script. It's not really the Unix way to wantonly add extra options to commands when it's so simple just to parse the output as-is: set x $(cksum < /bin/sh) sum=$2 blocks=$3 ... and there are probably at least another six ways to do it in the shell. This is the whole point of the "almost everything is a text file really" concept. Regards, James. _______________________________________________ Bug-coreutils mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils
