MD5 (OSX) and Output

Question

when using MD5 i get a text file output of the full path to the file and file name and then space and the hash.

wondering if there's a way omit the path and just have filename = hash

using terminal via automator

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find "$1" -type f -print0 | xargs -0 md5 > "$2/MD5_Digest.md5"

Answer 1

Use the -q command-line switch to make the output "quiet"

$ md5 -q my_file_to_test
d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e
$