Steven Augart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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
Right. > 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? Yes, that would be great! _______________________________________________ Bug-coreutils mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils
