tag 17997 notabug close 17997 stop On 07/11/2014 09:48 AM, xavier.ric...@laposte.net wrote: > Hello, > > I implemented my own MD5 generator. > It provides the same results as all the online MD5 generators, like for > instance http://onlinemd5.com/. > > But it gives a different result than the GNU md5sum tool. > So I investigated this : it seems that md5sum adds a newline at the end of > the input ! > > That is quite easy to test : > - go to http://onlinemd5.com/, type "test" as text input. The MD5 sum is > 098f6bcd4621d373cade4e832627b4f6 > - now type in a prompt : "echo test | md5sum". The MD5 sum is > d8e8fca2dc0f896fd7cb4cb0031ba249 > - back to onlinemd5.com, type "test" and press enter to add a new line in the > input. Now the MD5 sum is d8e8fca2dc0f896fd7cb4cb0031ba249 !! > > This behaviour was detected on RedHat Enterprise Linux 6.3 with GNU Coreutils > 8.4. > I was able to reproduce it using the latest 8.22 version (fresh build) on the > same machine, and on CentOS 5.10 with Coreutils 5.97. > > Did someone know about this ?
echo adds the newline. $ printf 'test' | md5sum 098f6bcd4621d373cade4e832627b4f6 - thanks, Pádraig.
