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| author | Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net> | 2007-03-28 23:39:18 +0200 |
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| committer | Jim Meyering <jim@meyering.net> | 2007-03-28 23:39:18 +0200 |
| commit | 0f63eebd1ea9cce137deef4ac98b85905465f6db (patch) | |
| tree | 7dea3df3b627bfb753d702ef13c214f523da2c01 /doc | |
| parent | 93ff956de7f4895158a72248fc59840e87df906a (diff) | |
| parent | a0faff1a58a96e008f45ab7c00e790dd2c397363 (diff) | |
| download | coreutils-0f63eebd1ea9cce137deef4ac98b85905465f6db.tar.xz | |
Merge branch 'master' of /cu
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diff --git a/doc/ChangeLog b/doc/ChangeLog index c4171b8f4..38b5f9dfd 100644 --- a/doc/ChangeLog +++ b/doc/ChangeLog @@ -1,3 +1,8 @@ +2007-03-21 Eric Blake <ebb9@byu.net> + + * coreutils.texi (md5sum invocation): Document escapes in output + format. Reported by Armijn Hemel. + 2007-03-15 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu> Fix manual in response to bug reports by Dan Jacobson. diff --git a/doc/coreutils.texi b/doc/coreutils.texi index 7a4cc2db0..588147f53 100644 --- a/doc/coreutils.texi +++ b/doc/coreutils.texi @@ -3203,6 +3203,10 @@ md5sum [@var{option}]@dots{} [@var{file}]@dots{} For each @var{file}, @samp{md5sum} outputs the MD5 checksum, a flag indicating a binary or text input file, and the file name. +If @var{file} contains a backslash or newline, 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. If @var{file} is omitted or specified as @samp{-}, standard input is read. The program accepts the following options. Also see @ref{Common options}. |