Re: sha*sum and filenames with backslashes

[Eric Blake]

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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.]

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Eric Blake             address@hidden
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