Re: md5sum sometimes prepends \

[Jim Meyering]

gregory mott <address@hidden> wrote:
> md5sum sometimes prepends \
> seems to correlate with filenames containing odd characters
> is this a bug or a feature?
>
> example:
> $  ls -l
> total 727
> -rw-r--r--    1 root     root       737535 Jul 20  2001   bar  bar  ?  bar  
> bar
> -rw-r--r--    1 root     g               4 May  3 13:12   foo  foo  ?  foo  
> foo
> -rw-r--r--    1 root     g             216 May  3 14:28 ls
> $  md5sum *
> \276bbcdf668e50dd738da93ccc7f2cee    bar  bar  \n  bar  bar
> \d3b07384d113edec49eaa6238ad5ff00    foo  foo  \n  foo  foo
> 8f906fa6281005fbe35892da9e3fb751  ls

That's a feature.
Each of those file names contains a NEWLINE (aka "\n") byte.