diff --git a/pages/common/md5sum.md b/pages/common/md5sum.md
index 4dcd6fbc46..b11154f811 100644
--- a/pages/common/md5sum.md
+++ b/pages/common/md5sum.md
@@ -13,3 +13,7 @@
 - Read a file of MD5SUMs and verify all files have matching checksums:
 
 `md5sum -c {{filename.md5}}`
+
+- Calculate a MD5 checksum from the standard input:
+
+`echo "{{text}}" | md5sum`