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Re: md5sum : strange error message : "invalid option"
- From: "Cliff Hones" <cliff at aonix dot co dot uk>
- To: <fergus at bonhard dot uklinux dot net>,<cygwin at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Sat, 5 Oct 2002 11:53:54 +0100
- Subject: Re: md5sum : strange error message : "invalid option"
- Organization: Aonix Europe Ltd.
- References: <000701c26c5c$992ab860$b17b1f3e@leper>
> I'm getting a strange error message from md5sum: the command has worked fine
> in the past. It looks like this:
>
> ~> md5sum `find /cygdrive/c/WINDOWS/Desktop`
> md5sum: invalid option -- M
> Try `md5sum --help' for more information.
> ~>
>
> There's no problem with md5sum `find .` for example. I can't see anything
> odd about my desktop, or files on it or under it. In particular, nothing
> beginning with a upper-case M.
Does it have a file name with an embedded hyphen, maybe? Something
like:
/cygdrive/c/WINDOWS/Desktop/Data -Modified.lnk
-- Cliff
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