Re: md5sum FILE produces spurious ` -' in output

2004-05-10 Thread Guy Maor
I tried to find other coreutils programs which behave in a similar way to see if there is any precedent. Lack file entries when invoked on stdin: wc, chksum, head, tail Have '-' as file entry when invoked on stdin: sha1sum, md5sum I agree that the version without the - is more useful, but I'm

Re: md5sum FILE produces spurious ` -' in output

2004-05-10 Thread Raul Miller
On Mon, May 10, 2004 at 08:32:24AM -0700, Guy Maor wrote: I agree that the version without the - is more useful, but I'm not completely convinced that the coreutils maintainer should change it. If it's already been changed several times, then I see no reason why it should not be changed. What