URL:
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Summary: running any of the sum tools on a filename with \
gives superfluous \ in output
Project: GNU Core Utilities
Submitted by: armijn
Submitted on: Tuesday 03/20/2007 at 21:21
Category: None
Severity: 3 - Normal
Item Group: None
Status: None
Privacy: Public
Assigned to: None
Open/Closed: Open
Discussion Lock: Any
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Details:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] tmp]$ touch bla
[EMAIL PROTECTED] tmp]$ touch bla\\bla
[EMAIL PROTECTED] tmp]$ sha256sum bla
e3b0c44298fc1c149afbf4c8996fb92427ae41e4649b934ca495991b7852b855 bla
[EMAIL PROTECTED] tmp]$ sha256sum bla\\bla
\e3b0c44298fc1c149afbf4c8996fb92427ae41e4649b934ca495991b7852b855 bla\\bla
If a file has a \ embedded in it, coreutils will output an extra \ at the
beginning of the hash. I've seen this in various versions of coreutils,
including 6.7.
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