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 -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1453009 Title: add option to get the md5 checksum only To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/coreutils/+bug/1453009/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs