#!/user/bin/perl use Digest::MD5 ; my $md5 = Digest::MD5->new; $md5->reset; $md5->addfile(\*STDIN); print $md5->hexdigest , "\n" ; $md5->reset; $md5->add("jhondoe:one_real:jh@ondoe"); print $md5->hexdigest , "\n" ; #### echo -n "jhondoe:one_real:jh@ondoe" | perl computedigest.pl 10933255f493361481c580259b2a1ab5 f483e2cea20ce9d5891abd77c66a01a6