how to md5 a string

[prad]

On Mon, 11 May 2009 23:31:25 +0200
Wybo Dekker <wybo at servalys.nl> wrote:

> It's easy to miss, indeed:
> 
> DESCRIPTION
> 	Print  or  check  MD5 (128-bit) checksums.  With no FILE, or
> when FILE is -, read standard input.
>
i saw that, but obviously didn't understand it.
on retrospect, i guess read standard input means echo something and in
order to get it to md5sum, you have to pipe it.

is that how i should be reading these things?

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