md5deep displays spuries text while computing checksums

Bug #1328138 reported by Peer
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Bug Description

md5deep displays spuries text while computing checksums in the terminal window

Sometimes lines are preceded by spaces, sometimes there is extra text behind the filename.

These scroll out of the window with continuing progress.

The resulting file do not seem to be affected.

To reproduce it, do some large md5deep run like "md5deep -r -e ." while in your home or root directory and observe the terminal window.

There should be clean output.

Observed in Trusty.

Tags: md5deep
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Peer (peer-i) wrote :

"resulting file" means: the file resulting from piping the output of said md5deep run into a file with appending "> resultingfile".

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Peer (peer-i) wrote :

The progress-meter also seems to be a bit strange. When working on a longer file, it seems to display parts of other files, too, while displaying the updating information.

In fact, I used a tee to create the file while at the same time observing md5deeps output (that's why there was output while at the same time creating a file with the output).

But spurious text displays also when using md5deep directly without redirection or piping.

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