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    17 hours ago

    Probably the very same thing that the post talks about, which is extracting the first word of a line of text.

    The output of md5sum looks like this:

    > md5sum test.txt
    a3cca2b2aa1e3b5b3b5aad99a8529074 test.txt
    

    So, it lists the checksum and then the file name, but you wanted just the checksum.