tag 11383 notabug thanks On 04/30/2012 09:34 AM, CAOBA Support team wrote: > Hi there, > > I found what I think is a bug in the *md5sum* command. > > When used on a filename with a backslah, the output doesn't look quite the > same as usual: > > # ls -l /tmp/file1 '/tmp/file\2' > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2 2012-04-30 17:05 /tmp/file1 > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2 2012-04-30 17:05 /tmp/file\2 > # md5sum /tmp/file1 '/tmp/file\2' > 60b725f10c9c85c70d97880dfe8191b3 /tmp/file1 > \3b5d5c3712955042212316173ccf37be /tmp/file\\2
Thanks for the report. However, this is not a bug, but intentional behavior. It allows us to encode filenames with newlines in them using a \n sequence, but to use \ as an escape character, \ also has to escape itself. -- Eric Blake ebl...@redhat.com +1-919-301-3266 Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org
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