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[md5sum] bug on filename with a backslash |
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Mon, 30 Apr 2012 17:34:45 +0200 |
Hi there,
I found what I think is a bug in the md5sum command.
When used on a filename with a backslah, the output doesn't look quite the same as usual:
# ls -l /tmp/file1 '/tmp/file\2'
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2 2012-04-30 17:05 /tmp/file1
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2 2012-04-30 17:05 /tmp/file\2
# md5sum /tmp/file1 '/tmp/file\2'
60b725f10c9c85c70d97880dfe8191b3 /tmp/file1
\3b5d5c3712955042212316173ccf37be /tmp/file\\2
Hope this helps
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Santiago DIEZ
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CAOBA Support team
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Re: bug#11383: [md5sum] bug on filename with a backslash |
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Mon, 30 Apr 2012 11:34:47 -0600 |
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tag 11383 notabug
thanks
On 04/30/2012 09:34 AM, CAOBA Support team wrote:
> Hi there,
>
> I found what I think is a bug in the *md5sum* command.
>
> When used on a filename with a backslah, the output doesn't look quite the
> same as usual:
>
> # ls -l /tmp/file1 '/tmp/file\2'
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2 2012-04-30 17:05 /tmp/file1
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2 2012-04-30 17:05 /tmp/file\2
> # md5sum /tmp/file1 '/tmp/file\2'
> 60b725f10c9c85c70d97880dfe8191b3 /tmp/file1
> \3b5d5c3712955042212316173ccf37be /tmp/file\\2
Thanks for the report. However, this is not a bug, but intentional
behavior. It allows us to encode filenames with newlines in them using
a \n sequence, but to use \ as an escape character, \ also has to escape
itself.
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