bug#77934: bug: md5sum: Escaped backslashes in filename got in stdout

"Glenn Golden" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.gnu.core-utils.bugs
Message-ID <[email protected]> 
On Sat, Apr 19, 2025, at 17:44, William Johnson via GNU coreutils Bug Reports wrote:
>
> Hello. I would like to report a bug for md5sum coreutil.
> If filename has ‘\t’ in filename, stdout for md5sum result will start 
> with backslash symbol.
> 
> [ ... ]
>


This is documented behavior since coreutils 8.25 for filenames containing backslashes:

  https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/manual/html_node/cksum-output-modes.html

- Glenn
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