Usually, I use "md5sum file.bla > MD5SUMS", but for large files this is uncomfortably silent.
Thanks to
an answer on stackoverflow by user "the other guy", who suggested to use "pv":
will give you a nice progress bar with md5sum's output like this:
78.9MB 0:00:02 [38.2MB/s] [===============================================================>] 100%
9f5d6a57bbdffc6c55bee82b3f4d4290 -
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