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Date: Wed, 10 Aug 2005 01:19:51 -0700
From: Brian Dessent <brian AT dessent DOT net>
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Subject: Re: minor md5sum output difference
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Luke Kendall wrote:

> Cygwin md5sum puts a space then an asterisk in front of filenames, Linux
> version puts two spaces.

The asterisk denotes whether the file was read in binary or text mode. 
Cygwin defaults to binary whereas linux defaults to text (but here the
distinction is irrelevent.)  You can use -b or -t as appropriate to
change the behavior.

Brian

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