-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 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.] - -- Don't work too hard, make some time for fun as well! Eric Blake [EMAIL PROTECTED] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (Cygwin) Comment: Public key at home.comcast.net/~ericblake/eblake.gpg Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFGjBZe84KuGfSFAYARAp1JAJ0cbwfM7rsusC6r6u+D25xkYKkHlwCeIZqb qhl73wJImcTZEe1VRRgd1FU= =HNA4 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Bug-coreutils mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils
