"Steve Ward" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Instead of handling some specific control characters (\n and \r) and the > backslash, what about using something like the "quoting-style" functionality > used by 'ls'? I think it would be a more general solution.
The problem is backward compatibility. The output must be a proper extension of the older formats, without changing the format for file names that were properly handled by previous versions. > I personally think the "escape" quoting style would best fit what md5sum > already does, but I guess it really depends on who's going to be reading the > file names (human, shell, etc.). That would break backwards compatibility for file names with spaces. Andreas. -- Andreas Schwab, SuSE Labs, [EMAIL PROTECTED] SuSE Linux Products GmbH, Maxfeldstraße 5, 90409 Nürnberg, Germany PGP key fingerprint = 58CA 54C7 6D53 942B 1756 01D3 44D5 214B 8276 4ED5 "And now for something completely different." _______________________________________________ Bug-coreutils mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils
