[ale] another darn sed/awk question

[kafka at antichri.st (George Carless)]

> Which brings up another more difficult question:
> Does anyone know how I can md5sum a field using AWK?!?
>
> I'd like to md5sum the first field before inserting it into a mysql
> database.  Would it be easier to use password() in mysql to do this?

mysql has an md5 function.  It's called... md5() :)

--George

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