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Why do I become a different hash when I try:
md5 <<< "Hello"
md5 -s "Hello"
Is it because of a possible line break in the first example?

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    When in doubt, dump your data. od -xa <<< 'Hello' or xxd <<< 'Hello' will show you an extra trailing newline. Commented Apr 4, 2013 at 15:12

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Heredocs (thats what <<< is called) in bash always end with a newline character. There is no way to disable this behavior. This newline character is what is throwing off the checksum.

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  • Note that bash copied that feature (called herestring not heredoc) from ksh93 which itself copied it from zsh which itself copied it from the Plan 9 shell rc. rc did not add the trailing newline character. ksh93, zsh and bash do. Commented Apr 4, 2013 at 21:25

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