[bug #19363] running any of the sum tools on a filename with gives superfluous in output

[Armijn Hemel]

URL:
  <http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?19363>

                 Summary: running any of the sum tools on a filename with \
gives superfluous \ in output
                 Project: GNU Core Utilities
            Submitted by: armijn
            Submitted on: Tuesday 03/20/2007 at 21:21
                Category: None
                Severity: 3 - Normal
              Item Group: None
                  Status: None
                 Privacy: Public
             Assigned to: None
             Open/Closed: Open
         Discussion Lock: Any

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Details:

address@hidden tmp]$ touch bla
address@hidden tmp]$ touch bla\\bla
address@hidden tmp]$ sha256sum bla
e3b0c44298fc1c149afbf4c8996fb92427ae41e4649b934ca495991b7852b855  bla
address@hidden tmp]$ sha256sum bla\\bla 
\e3b0c44298fc1c149afbf4c8996fb92427ae41e4649b934ca495991b7852b855  bla\\bla


If a file has a \ embedded in it, coreutils will output an extra \ at the
beginning of the hash. I've seen this in various versions of coreutils,
including 6.7.




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