Re: BUG: md5sum 5.97

[Eric Blake]

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According to Sam Liddicott on 6/20/2008 5:03 AM:
| Try running md5sum 5.97

Consider upgrading - the latest stable version of coreutils is 6.12, with
a number of bug fixes in the meantime.

| on a file with \ in it's name; and the output is
| prefixed with a \

This is intentional, and in newer versions of coreutils, the documentation
was even updated to mention this.  GNU *sum utilities add escape sequences
into file names to allow for unambiguous parsing of those file names, even
if they contain newlines or backslashes.  (Still not fixed, but on my TODO
list, is to write a patch to extend this escaping process to also cover \r
characters in filenames, to make *sum robust to checksum lists that have
been accidentally converted to CRLF line endings).

- --
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Eric Blake             address@hidden
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