On Tue, Jul 23, 2002 at 04:56:00PM +0200, Markus Friedl wrote: > yes, you could use > > > > (date;echo $i) | openssl md5 >> ${DATA} if possible i'd rather not rely on openssl/md5/md5sum. and i'd prefer md5 over openssl. but is something like cksum sufficent here?