Generate an MD5 hash under linux .

I will present two examples to generate an md5 hash from an input string.

The first example uses the openssl.

$ echo -n 'text to be encrypted' | openssl md5
(stdin)= 8df639b301a1e10c36cc2f03bbdf8863

$ echo -n 'text to be encrypted' | openssl md5

(stdin)= 8df639b301a1e10c36cc2f03bbdf8863

The second example uses md5sum.

$ echo -n 'text to be encrypted' | md5sum
8df639b301a1e10c36cc2f03bbdf8863  -

$ echo -n 'text to be encrypted' | md5sum

8df639b301a1e10c36cc2f03bbdf8863 -

This is all.