Aparna Rallabandi wrote:

> $ md5sum --string "654321"
> c33367701511b4f6020ec61ded352059  "654321"

This is the md5 of the six characters "654321".

> $ echo "654321" |md5sum --text
> 4a62cf6ee3f8d889e65af1cc271f20fa  -

This is the md5 of the seven characters "654321\n".  Use echo -n if you
don't want the newline included.

Brian


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