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I'm working on an assignment, and the directions say "Generate a MD5 hash value of your text1 and save this hash value as text1-md5." I know the command to generate the hash is md5sum text1 but how do I get that to save to the text1-md5? Thank you!

student0562
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You can redirect the output of the command like you can for any linux command: 

md5sum text1 > text1-md5

However you might want to cut the output as in addition to the md5 hash md5sum outputs the filename. Alternatively read this stackoverflow post.

Ivaylo Strandjev
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