how to encrypt a string using md5

Shell Programming and Scripting
1

Hi there,

I want to encrypt a string (using md5 algorithm) using shell script. Any ideas?
Is possible only using sh or awk ?

I can't install md5sum on my solaris machine

Thanks

regards,
catalin

2

Strictly speakly you can't encrypt anything with md5 because it's not an encryption algorithm. Ignoring that, you can use the digest command that appeared on Solaris 10.

On Linux:

$  echo hello | md5sum
b1946ac92492d2347c6235b4d2611184  -
$

And on Solaris 10:

$ echo hello | digest -a md5 /dev/fd/0
b1946ac92492d2347c6235b4d2611184
$