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Date: Wed, 10 Aug 2005 18:02:50 +1000 (EST)
From: Luke Kendall <luke.kendall@cisra.canon.com.au>
Subject: minor md5sum output difference
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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?

luke


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