You can do it without openssl & dont forget to use ‘-n’ with echo.

#!/bin/sh
echo -n $* | md5sum


You can do it without openssl.

#!/bin/sh
echo -n $* | md5sum


echo -n test | md5sum

Heh – I didn’t even think of that. I like yours better than mine now!

I think what we have here is programmer vs. admin way of thinking.

Programmer automatically goes “hey, I bet there is a [some-language] module/library for that somewhere…” when admin goes “I bet there is a tool for that somewhere…” :P

Here is my version of the same thing . . .

#!/bin/sh

echo $* | openssl dgst -md5

I always seem to have openssl, but not always Digest::MD5.