how to md5 a string

[prad]

on freebsd i could md5 -s 'whatever' and get the hash.
i can't figure out how to do this on ubuntu which has md5sum for
hashing files, but not strings. nor have i been able to find something
on the net, yet.

what is the mechanism for doing this from the commandline on ubuntu?

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