Aparna Rallabandi wrote:
I have a dev box where there is version 5.2.1 of md5sum. The result
of md5sum --string on a string say "654321" is different from that of
"echo \"654321\" | md5sum --text".
Of course it is. One of those ends with a '\n'.
Also, the way you quoted above is confusing. It looks like you did:
$ echo \"654321\"
(i.e. included the quotes as part of what was echoed)
My test box has md5sum version 5.97 where --string option is not
supported. So i use the "echo \"654321\" | md5sum --text".
Is there any way i can get the results of "md5sum --string
\"654321\"" with the version 5.97 of md5sum (or) is this a bug?
printf "654321" | md5sum --text should be equivalent (at least, I get
the same result as you posted). Note however that 5.2.1 is *ancient*;
5.97 is already (IIRC) several years old, and 6.12 is current.
Basically, you need to feed the string to md5sum in some manner that
does not add a '\n'.
--
Matthew
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