On Tue, Oct 17, 2023, at 02:22, Simon Richter M. Sc. wrote:
>
> No that doesn't make sense, this can't be intended behaviour, even if
> you escape the backslash there should be no backslash in the beginning
> of the checksum!
>
It is intended and documented as such. From coreutils.info (9.3):
"Without ‘--zero’, if FILE contains a backslash, newline, or carriage
return, the line is started with a backslash, and each problematic
character in the file name is escaped with a backslash, making the
output unambiguous even in the presence of arbitrary file names."
You can argue that it ought to have been done differently, but it is the
documented behavior.
Glenn Golden
