tag 17820 notabug close 17820 stop On 06/20/2014 11:48 AM, Morhold wrote: > How to reproduce: > > ~> touch "a\b" > > ~> ls "a\b" > a\b > > ~> sha1sum "a\b" > \da39a3ee5e6b4b0d3255bfef95601890afd80709 a\\b > > ~> sha1sum --version > sha1sum (GNU coreutils) 8.13
This is expected and is there to escape file names containing '\n' We don't strictly need to also escape file names with '\' in them, and we considered not doing that in this thread, but decided to leave as is: http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/coreutils/2013-11/msg00017.html thanks, Pádraig.
