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Hello everyone,

I'm curious if it's possible to convert a string to md5 using bash itself. I was looking for this info in the internet as well as in the forums but without result. I need to have a little script which will generate a password and its md5 hash. I would be grateful for any directions to find the solution.

Thank you in advance.

It might be possible to program the whole algorithm in bash, yet it is far more convenient to just use

bash is Turing complete so it can do anything a computer can do.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turing_completeness

Well, yeah, I know, but I am not Turing complete to write it

So, am I))

Anyway, I tried the following:


and get the result:


Sorry, for this question but are space and the hyphen parts of the md5 code? I have been trying to reset wordpress password (with I used e180ac1293640daf137fb5012d62a503) via phpMyAdmin tool using this md5 code and I failed. Looks like I am doing something wrong.

You used 'echo' and not 'echo -n'. This means the newline at the end of your password is also encoded in the md5sum and so part of your password. Please use 'echo -n'. Also you don't need the space and hyphen behind the md5 itself, it's not part of the md5, that is the 'filename' md5sum used as input (and the hyphen means it used stdin)

what it seems you're after is;



The echo -n thing always catches people out the first time they use md5 heh

Thank you so much! All of you!