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sha*sum and filenames with backslashes


From: Geoff Kuenning
Subject: sha*sum and filenames with backslashes
Date: 03 Jul 2007 17:01:32 -0700
User-agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.3

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.
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    Geoff Kuenning   address@hidden   http://www.cs.hmc.edu/~geoff/

Have I mentioned that I hate computers?
        -- Drew Bernat, HMC '99




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