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md5

Calculate MD5 cryptographic checksums.

• Print MD5 checksum for a file:

md5 {{filename}}

• Print MD5 checksum for each file in a list or directory:

md5 {{filename1}} {{filename2}} md5 {{directory/\*}}

• Output only the md5 checksum (no filename):

md5 -q {{filename}}

• Print a checksum of the given string:

md5 -s {{string}}