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no, no carriage return, just a line feed
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It's 32 characters! The md5sum is adding a carriage return & linefeed to the end. You can get rid of it like this:

% echo -n string | md5sum|awk '{print $1}'|wc -c
33
% echo -n $(echo -n string | md5sum|awk '{print $1}')|wc -c
32

or you could do it like this:

% echo -n $(md5sum <<< 'string'|awk '{print $1}')|wc -c
32

You can tell when one of the commands is adding a newline because the 32 character string will show up on its own line. If no newline is present it should always show up like this:

[prompt %] echo -n $(md5sum <<< 'string'|awk '{print $1}')
b80fa55b1234f1935cea559d9efbc39a[prompt %]

It's 32 characters! The md5sum is adding a carriage return & linefeed to the end. You can get rid of it like this:

% echo -n string | md5sum|awk '{print $1}'|wc -c
33
% echo -n $(echo -n string | md5sum|awk '{print $1}')|wc -c
32

or you could do it like this:

% echo -n $(md5sum <<< 'string'|awk '{print $1}')|wc -c
32

You can tell when one of the commands is adding a newline because the 32 character string will show up on its own line. If no newline is present it should always show up like this:

[prompt %] echo -n $(md5sum <<< 'string'|awk '{print $1}')
b80fa55b1234f1935cea559d9efbc39a[prompt %]

It's 32 characters! The md5sum is adding a linefeed to the end. You can get rid of it like this:

% echo -n string | md5sum|awk '{print $1}'|wc -c
33
% echo -n $(echo -n string | md5sum|awk '{print $1}')|wc -c
32

or you could do it like this:

% echo -n $(md5sum <<< 'string'|awk '{print $1}')|wc -c
32

You can tell when one of the commands is adding a newline because the 32 character string will show up on its own line. If no newline is present it should always show up like this:

[prompt %] echo -n $(md5sum <<< 'string'|awk '{print $1}')
b80fa55b1234f1935cea559d9efbc39a[prompt %]
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It's 32 characters! The md5sum is adding a carriage return & linefeed to the end. You can get rid of it like this:

% echo -n string | md5sum|awk '{print $1}'|wc -c
33
% echo -n $(echo -n string | md5sum|awk '{print $1}')|wc -c
32

or you could do it like this:

% echo -n $(md5sum <<< 'string'|awk '{print $1}')|wc -c
32

You can tell when one of the commands is adding a newline because the 32 character string will show up on its own line. If no newline is present it should always show up like this:

[prompt %] echo -n $(md5sum <<< 'string'|awk '{print $1}')
b80fa55b1234f1935cea559d9efbc39a[prompt %]