hash each line in text file

Question

I\'m trying to write a little script which will open a text file and give me an md5 hash for each line of text. For example I have a file with:

123
213
312
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Answer 1

You can just call md5sum directly in the script:

#!/bin/bash
#read.file.line.by.line.sh

while read line
do
echo $line | md5sum | awk '{print $1}'
done

That way the script spits out directly what you want: the md5 hash of each line.

Answer 2

Almost there, try this:

while read -r line; do printf %s "$line" | md5sum | cut -f1 -d' '; done < 123.txt

Unless you also want to hash the newline character in every line you should use printf or echo -n instead of echo option.

In a script:

#! /bin/bash
cat "$@" | while read -r line; do
    printf %s "$line" | md5sum | cut -f1 -d' '
done

The script can be called with multiple files as parameters.