On Sun, 03 Apr 2005 23:34:00 +0100, Steve Lilly was saying : > Dear GNU, > > I was testing one of my own scripts for robustness against exotic > filenames containing "\" when I noticed a peculiar behaviour from the > md5sum utility (version 5.2.1). To demonstrate: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] test]$ touch test\\test > [EMAIL PROTECTED] test]$ ls > test\test > [EMAIL PROTECTED] test]$ md5sum * > \d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e test\\test > > I have tried this with bash and tcsh. ls confirms the file has a single > \ character. It appears (to me at least) that md5sum is escaping the \ > to \\, but I'm baffled as to the extra \ at the beginning of the hash!
Here I have coreutils 5.2.1, debian 3.1 unstable, bash 3.00.16(1) and I can not reproduce your problem. The hash value is correct and without the \ at the beginning. Please could you tell us which is your system and bash version ? > Regards, > Steve Lilly Regards, Olivier Delhomme.
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