Okay.... /not/ a bug, apparently. The source-code for md5sum contains:
/* Output a leading backslash if the file name contains
a newline or backslash. */
if (strchr (file, '\n') || strchr (file, '\\'))
putchar ('\\');
So, apparently, this is by design.
However, neither the manpage nor the infopage mentions this at all, so I
would consider this a documentation bug, definitely.
It looks like the documentation has been fixed in CVS and at least the
latest release, 6.9.
See http://www.mail-archive.com/bug-coreutils@gnu.org/msg09713.html
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