prad wrote: > 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? echo -n teststring |md5sum see man md5sum -- Wybo