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oaziz
oaziz

Reputation: 1372

echo -n aWord | md5 not returning expected result

When I pass this line echo -n aWord | md5 directly in shell I get the expected result - same as PHP md5('aWord') - but when I call the code from a file I get a different string.

Please help.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 253

Answers (2)

Teg
Teg

Reputation: 31

I can't comment but I do get the same result from a file than from the command line :

$ echo -n 'aWord' | md5sum
a72ef25b2fa8080e6e0643c967284842  -
$ echo -n 'aWord' > file
$ md5sum file 
a72ef25b2fa8080e6e0643c967284842  file

Upvotes: 1

user80168
user80168

Reputation:

If you get following md5s:

=$ echo -n aWord | md5sum
a72ef25b2fa8080e6e0643c967284842  -

And from file:

=$ cat test.file 
aWord

=$ md5sum test.file 
1d03663ed556e850007c886ce5ad3ade  test.file

This is because there is additional character in file - new line character:

=$ hexdump -C test.file 
00000000  61 57 6f 72 64 0a                                 |aWord.|
00000006

Upvotes: 2

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