Chuck Messenger wrote: > $ touch a\\\'s > $ ls > a\'s > $ md5sum a\\\'s > \d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e a\\'s > $ md5sum --version > md5sum (coreutils) 5.2.1 > > In other words, an extraneous \ is inserted before the md5 in the > output, due to the fact that there's a backslash (or perhaps a \') in > the file name.
The behavior is intentional. Please see this discussion: http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-coreutils/2005-04/msg00046.html Bob _______________________________________________ Bug-coreutils mailing list Bug-coreutils@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils
