Subject: md5sum: odd escaping for input filename \

From: Michael Coleman <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 2 Jun 2020 02:17:13 +0000

Apologies if this has already been fixed, but glancing at the source, probably not.

For version 8.22:

$ true > \\
$ md5sum \\
\d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e  \\
$ md5sum < \\
d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e  -

The checksum is not what I would expect, due to the leading backslash.  And in any case, the "\d" has no obvious interpretation.  Really, I can't imagine ever escaping the checksum.

(Yes, my users are a clever people.)

Cheers,
Mike

Michael Coleman ([email-masked]<mailto:[email-masked]>)
Computational Scientist
Research Advanced Computing Services
University of Oregon