[Bug 1453009] Re: add option to get the md5 checksum only

[C de-Avillez]

Thank you for opening this bug and helping make Ubuntu and GNU software
better. As Pádraig commented above, this has already been discussed
upstream, and there is a consensus among the Coreutils maintainers *not*
to do it.

As such, closing invalid (not a bug). We will not create a delta for
this.

** Changed in: coreutils (Ubuntu)
   Importance: Undecided => Low

** Changed in: coreutils (Ubuntu)
       Status: New => Invalid

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Title:
  add option to get the md5 checksum only

Status in coreutils package in Ubuntu:
  Invalid

Bug description:
  It's currently not possible to retrieve the md5 checksum of a file
  only<ref>http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3679296/only-get-hash-
  value-using-md5sum-without-filename</ref>, so that external tools have
  to be used.

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 15.04
  Package: coreutils 8.23-3ubuntu1
  Uname: Linux 4.0.1-040001-generic x86_64
  ApportVersion: 2.17.2-0ubuntu1
  Architecture: amd64
  CurrentDesktop: Unity
  Date: Fri May  8 09:16:33 2015
  EcryptfsInUse: Yes
  InstallationDate: Installed on 2015-04-02 (35 days ago)
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 15.04 "Vivid Vervet" - Beta amd64 (20150326)
  ProcEnviron:
   TERM=xterm
   PATH=(custom, no user)
   XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
   LANG=de_DE.UTF-8
   SHELL=/bin/bash
  SourcePackage: coreutils
  SystemImageInfo:
   current build number: 0
   device name: 
   channel: daily
   last update: Unknown
  UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

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