* Felix Lechner <felix.lech...@lease-up.com>, 2020-03-04, 10:28:
The test package provided elsewhere in this bug may have an invalid
md5sums file. As detailed in commit 822d4b70, the specifications
explain that newlines are escaped with a backslash but are printed
*verbatim*:
https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/manual/html_node/md5sum-invocation.html
That is also how the md5sum tool behaves. It can be tested on any file system.
Hmm, no? The documentation is not very clear about this, but md5sums
escapes newlines as \n:
$ x=$(printf 'foo\nbar')
$ echo "$x"
foo
bar
$ touch "$x"
$ md5sum "$x"
\d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e foo\nbar
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Jakub Wilk
