From: Clifford Heath <no@...>
Date: 2006-12-06T07:10:16+09:00
Subject: Re: md5 function in Ruby

Denys Yakhnenko wrote:
> md5=Digest::MD5.hexdigest(File.read("C:\\dc.log"))
> produces completely different hash than any of the other tools I use

Open the file in binary mode:

ruby -e 'require "digest/md5"; p Digest::MD5.hexdigest(File.read("C:\\dc.log", "rb"))'

Clifford Heath.