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Re: minor md5sum output difference
On Aug 10 18:02, Luke Kendall wrote:
> Cygwin md5sum puts a space then an asterisk in front of filenames, Linux
> version puts two spaces.
>
> E.g.:
>
> Linux$ echo | md5sum
> 68b329da9893e34099c7d8ad5cb9c940 -
> Cywgin$ echo | md5sum
> 68b329da9893e34099c7d8ad5cb9c940 *-
>
> I see "md5sum -c" accepts either two spaces or space plus asterisk.
>
> Why the difference in output formats? Does it matter?
`man md5sum' is rather instructive.
Corinna
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