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Why does sha1sum act differently with the same input?

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Problem

I'm trying to replicate the behavior of the sha1sum executable in some java code, however, in the process I've discovered that sha1sum appears to behave differently given the same input in two scenarios. Assume input of '12345' without the single quotes and with no newline. If I put this data into …

Error Output

$ sha1sum file1
8cb2237d0679ca88db6464eac60da96345513964  file1

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Fix for: Why does sha1sum act differently with the same input?

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adds a newline. To get the same result you should add a single at end of input if it is not present.

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