making an md5 checksum of files

themacko

Barking at the moon.
I am using a program called Shorten to create md5s of audio files that I rip for this Dave Matthews bootleg-trading thing I'm into. Anyhow, is there a way to create a checksum via the terminal or some other Mac app? Also, would it be possible to create an md5 of a CD?

(I really don't know much about the whole md5 / checksum thing, so forgive me if I used the terminology wrong) :)
 
Thanks for the reply, but could you please be a bit more specific as to what I do with 'man cksum' I tried entering it Terminal but nothing happened.
 
On OS X, cksum doesn't appear to support md5 at the moment; also, there isn't an md5 binary. The best way to do md5 for now is to use openssl:

Code:
$ openssl md5 /mach_kernel 
MD5(/mach_kernel)= 7117ab5a67e4a76f65d67ce37224d08d
 
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