Dear W. Limmer,
I can reproduce the output you sent.
I examined the md5sum documentation, and it is indeed incomplete. "For
each file, `md5sum' outputs the MD5 checksum, a flag indicating binary or
text input file, and the filename. "
It seems clear that this whole backslashing thing is done in order to
handle the case of a filename that contains a newline (since the format
uses newlines as terminators), and once that's in place, to handle the
case of a filename that contains the string "\n". (I looked in the source
code, src/md5sum.c, to check.)
maintainer(s): Does it make sense for one of us to add documentation on
the file format output by md5sum to the information on the texinfo page?
--Steve
"W. L." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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10/07/2003 04:26 PM
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Subject: md5sum: Output format error on files with
backslash in their names
Dear Team,
using md5sum on files with a backslash in their filenames
gives an error in the output file format: A waste backslash
is output at the beginning of the line.
Also the backslashes themselves are quoted: Bug or feature?
Please check following example:
> md5sum ../div/�ble\ Filenamen/*
\45bb8963e53c01e2fd6f926bc15f0553 ../div/�ble Filenamen/with\nLinefeed
\d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e ../div/�ble Filenamen/with \\ Backslash
\d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e ../div/�ble Filenamen/with \\\\
Backslashes
a6a218b4d55f251551f21ac351bded8e ../div/�ble Filenamen/���?
...
Best regards,
W. Limmer
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