Presenting output from md5.digest like md5sum from GNU textutils

[Pål Sollie]

Oleg Broytmann <phd at phd.russ.ru> writes:

> On Mon, 29 May 2000, [iso-8859-1] Pål Sollie wrote:
>> I am trying to write a script that is to save the checksum of all
>> the specified files to a database. I'd like to convert the output I
>> get from md5.digest to a human-readable format. Decimal values
>> would be OK, but I'd be thrilled to get the same output as md5sum
>> from GNU textutils.

>    Attached. The actual algorith is Guido's.

Thank you very much.
Hopefully I'll learn quite a bit from this :)

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