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Re: sha*sum and filenames with backslashes
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Eric Blake |
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Re: sha*sum and filenames with backslashes |
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Wed, 04 Jul 2007 15:51:26 -0600 |
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According to Geoff Kuenning on 7/3/2007 6:01 PM:
> When the *sum family of programs are given a filename that contains
> a backslash, a spurious backslash is given at the beginning of the
> output line.
>
> This appears to be a feature, since it's explicitly in the code.
> However it isn't documented, which can cause surprises for programs
> that expect to parse the output of *sum.
This was previously brought up, and a documentation patch was provided in
time for coreutils 6.9.
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-coreutils/2007-03/msg00173.html
Sounds like you need to upgrade.
[However, this does point out that I have not yet had time to focus on my
patch for getting \r to be treated like \\ and \n in the *sum output.]
- --
Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well!
Eric Blake address@hidden
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