On Sun 28 Nov 2021 at 20:21:15 (+0100), Thomas Schmitt wrote: > David Wright wrote: > > I was taken by surprise by the following output from md5sum: > > \adfc1d2f1b1d6c7fcaa51e857c1a6f68 special/C:\\nppdf32Log\\debuglog.txt > > It's a feature, not a bug. (tm) > > > https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/manual/html_node/md5sum-invocation.html > > "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."
Ah, I missed that. Ironic considering that I feed md5sum with -print0 and -0 options, but then, md5sum is my final "product". I guess it's required for md5sum -c to work correctly. Thanks to Greg too. My solution will be to rename or delete the file, after adding code to detect any future occurrences. Cheers, David.
