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Old 03-11-2004, 08:45 AM   #1
karans
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Question MD5 utility

I am looking for a utility which will generate the md5 hashes for a given string of characters.

md5sum generated the hash for only files.

What I want to do is call a utility through a script which will take input and generate the md5 hash for it .

Any suggestions would be really appreciated.

Karan
 
Old 03-11-2004, 09:22 AM   #2
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Google for this. I remember seeing something like this. Let me check
 
Old 03-11-2004, 09:31 AM   #3
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See this page:
http://www.fourmilab.ch/md5/
 
Old 03-11-2004, 09:33 AM   #4
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doh!
Answered..
Last edited by paintcheck200; 03-11-2004 at 09:34 AM.
 
Old 03-11-2004, 10:34 AM   #5
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md5sum will take input from stdin with something like:
echo "this is my string" | md5sum
 
Old 03-12-2004, 05:17 AM   #6
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Guys , thanks for your replies . But there is a problem . The md5 hash generated by GRUB differs from that given by "echo " name" | md5sum " .

The Link http://www.fourmilab.ch/md5/ gives a windows utility , I want 1 for Red Hat Linux 9.0

Is there a way out ?
 
  


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