Re: md5 without MD5 ("OpenBSD") =

[Phil Pennock <Phil.Pennock@globnix.org>]

On 2001-09-02 at 13:51 -0700, Camille Davis wrote:
> Anyone know how to get the md5 command to return JUST the md5 string, NOT
> the other junk?
>
> $ md5 -s "OpenBSD"
> MD5 ("OpenBSD") = 760be6e1c2192a5bf7c0df47cc5f71ca
>
> I just want
> 760be6e1c2192a5bf7c0df47cc5f71ca

Several people have given solutions which use the fourth field.  This
breaks if the filename has embedded whitespace.

Ultimate paranoia:
 md5 file_name | tail -1 | awk '{print $NF}'
or:
 perl <file_name -MDigest::MD5 -le \
  '$c=Digest::MD5->new; $c->addfile(STDIN); print $c->hexdigest'

Either of which _should_ cope with arbitrary characters in filenames.  I
think.
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