[Bug 53584] Re: md5sum doesn't document behavior for backslash-in-filename

[Phillip Susi]

** Changed in: coreutils (Ubuntu)
       Status: Confirmed => Fix Released

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Title:
  md5sum doesn't document behavior for backslash-in-filename

Status in “coreutils” package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released

Bug description:
  Binary package hint: coreutils

  Hi,
  I think I may have discovered a bug in md5sum.

  When I generate the checksum of a file with a backslash in the
  filename, it prepends a backslash to the hash, and then also escapes
  the backslash in the output filename. Please see example below:

  $ md5sum "test\file"
  \d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e  test\\file

  This was on ubuntu 6.06 and 5.10. Does not occur in Debian 3.1.

  Thanks for your time,
  Andrew Jones

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