How do you determine the MD5 checksum of a file?

From: <gschmid_at_notes.cc.sunysb.edu>
Date: Wed, 19 Jun 2002 13:21:59 -0400

All of the patch kit descriptions list the MD5 & SHA1 checksums
for the kit tarballs.

How do I determine these checksums for those files after they've been
downloaded?

The 'sum' & 'cksum' commands don't seem to have an MD5 flag.

TIA
Received on Wed Jun 19 2002 - 17:22:18 NZST