Okay, so apparently, the FIND command is so powerful that you can even tell it what to do with the files when it finds them. I always used to find multiple files, translate newline characters to null characters, then pass each argument to XARGS as in:
find ./ -regex ".*\.mp3" | tr \\n \\0 | xargs -0 -n 1 md5sum > mp3checksums.md5
But, you can also say:
find ./ -regex ".*\.mp3" -exec md5sum {} \; > mp3checksums.md5
Where, the {} implies to insert an individual argument into that part of the exec string, and the semicolon (escaped so it's not picked up by BASH) ends the -exec agrument.
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