just trying to wrap a dump perl one-liner in a batch file
and it's not working. the batch writes a file's md5
cksum to stdout and takes two parms at the batch level:
c:\>md5.bat HEX file.txt

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First parm is the type of output (hex,bin,base64)
Second parm is the file. Both are fed to the batch with
%1 and %2, respectively. Enuff about the .bat
Whenever i run this in the batch:
perl -MDigest::MD5 -e "print Digest::MD5->new->add(<>)->digest" %2

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i get one cksum; but when i run it from the Win32 cmd console
i get a completely different chksum.

can anyone explain what's going on here. hunch is quirky behavior of STDIN, but i can't figure it out.

humbly,
novitiate
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