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bug#17820: sha1sum bug: bad reporting on filenames with "\"
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Pádraig Brady |
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bug#17820: sha1sum bug: bad reporting on filenames with "\" |
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Date: |
Fri, 20 Jun 2014 18:52:31 +0100 |
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On 06/20/2014 11:48 AM, Morhold wrote:
> How to reproduce:
>
> ~> touch "a\b"
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> ~> ls "a\b"
> a\b
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> ~> sha1sum "a\b"
> \da39a3ee5e6b4b0d3255bfef95601890afd80709 a\\b
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> ~> 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.