You were so close  :-(

$ echo "This is an input string" | digest -v -a md5
md5 35e1332bf506d35c7c9f1c2b0cb39d4e


Brian


Morten Gulbrandsen wrote:
Please how can I with bash read a string for hashing with digest, from stdin?

bash-3.00$ digest  -v  -a  md5  "This is an input string."
digest: can not open input file This is an input string.

I did observe that the redirect operators are not displayed in the preview, so 
I attach my example file.
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