md5 newbie question

[Chris Pressey]

On Sat, 06 Dec 2003 16:52:42 -0500
Marty Landman <MLandman at face2interface.com> wrote:

> [...]
> Seems the problem here is that the md5 cmd's output is not simply the 
> result string but a description of the cmd together with the result.
> If I need to do much of this guess a little pgm's called for.

>From "man md5":

     -q      Quiet mode - only the MD5 sum is printed out.

So, try:

  md5 -q /tmp/httpd-2.0.48.tar.gz

-Chris