To get the md5 hash of a string from the command line, do e.g. this:
echo -n hallo | md5sum
It is important to do “echo -n” to prevent echo from outputting the trailing new line. Otherwise the newline will be included in the hash.
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md5 on a string
Friday, December 18th, 2009tail -f with highlighting
Monday, October 5th, 2009Use
tail -f /path/to/my.log | perl -p -e 's/(KEYWORD_1|KEYWORD_2)/\033[7;1m$1\033[0m/g;'
to highlight all occurences of KEYWORD_1 and KEYWORD_2 in tail -f.