using md5sum in a script

Hi

I need to use the following command in a perl script
md5sum data.csv>april2001.hsh

md5sum is in usr/local/lib/perl5
data.csv is in usr/local/etc/httpd/cgi-bin/data
april2001 should be created in same place as data.csv

using "md5sum data.csv>april2001.hsh" just gets me the error message:
"Can't locate object method "md5sum" via package "data.csv" at /usr/local/etc/httpd/cgi-bin/data/script_name.pl"

Anyone any ideas?

Here is how you do that ... mainly you can run any external shell commands with the system (" <shellcommand> " ); syntax
- and md5sum should be able to be run in the shell, so ...




system ("md5sum usr/local/etc/httpd/cgi-bin/data/data.csv > usr/local/etc/httpd/cgi-bin/data/april2001");