-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 According to Sam Liddicott on 6/20/2008 5:03 AM: | Try running md5sum 5.97
Consider upgrading - the latest stable version of coreutils is 6.12, with a number of bug fixes in the meantime. | on a file with \ in it's name; and the output is | prefixed with a \ This is intentional, and in newer versions of coreutils, the documentation was even updated to mention this. GNU *sum utilities add escape sequences into file names to allow for unambiguous parsing of those file names, even if they contain newlines or backslashes. (Still not fixed, but on my TODO list, is to write a patch to extend this escaping process to also cover \r characters in filenames, to make *sum robust to checksum lists that have been accidentally converted to CRLF line endings). - -- Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well! Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (Cygwin) Comment: Public key at home.comcast.net/~ericblake/eblake.gpg Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAkhbn+4ACgkQ84KuGfSFAYAWPwCghq8lYx1G89GBDbxwwRREtZrT N/cAnR7A6qBPghX6WQV9uJ5MVMjonjVO =7Nms -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Bug-coreutils mailing list Bug-coreutils@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils
