Re: md5sum: Output format error on files with backslash in their names

[Jim Meyering]

Steven Augart <address@hidden> wrote:
> I examined the md5sum documentation, and it is indeed incomplete.  "For
> each file, `md5sum' outputs the MD5 checksum, a flag indicating binary or
> text input file, and the filename. "
>
> It seems clear that this whole backslashing thing is done in order to
> handle the case of a filename that contains a newline (since the format
> uses newlines as terminators), and once that's in place, to handle the

Right.

> case of a filename that contains the string "\n".  (I looked in the source
> code, src/md5sum.c, to check.)
>
> maintainer(s): Does it make sense for one of us to add documentation on
> the file format output by md5sum to the information on the texinfo page?

Yes, that would be great!