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bug#23277: md5sum: Output broken when filename contains \n
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Eric Blake |
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bug#23277: md5sum: Output broken when filename contains \n |
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Tue, 12 Apr 2016 09:37:47 -0600 |
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tag 23277 notabug
thanks
On 04/12/2016 07:17 AM, Ulrich Sibiller wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I observe a strange behaviour for {md5,sha1,sha512}sum on RHEL 6.7:
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> # sha512sum dat_files/1.000e-01*dat
> a66f6f8f8da256d07330a17bea942bba9584e182799dce2a42bc7e882d4d9267c40568644d7f5b63128b286a6393764fc599cc30f687b8dacf86e0a96d87795c
> dat_files/1.000e-01.dat
> \a66f6f8f8da256d07330a17bea942bba9584e182799dce2a42bc7e882d4d9267c40568644d7f5b63128b286a6393764fc599cc30f687b8dacf86e0a96d87795c
> dat_files/1.000e-01\n.dat
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> The second file has \n in the name and the output gets a backslash
> prepended which looks wrong to me.
Thanks for the report, but the behavior you are seeing is documented as
intentional. This is so that a newline in a filename is unambiguously
parseable via an escape sequence (the leading \ tells you that escape
sequences will be present). As the manual mentions that this is
intentional behavior, I'm closing this as not a bug, but feel free to
respond with further comments.
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Eric Blake eblake redhat com +1-919-301-3266
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