[CentOS] Automatically send CTRL-D
William L. Maltby
CentOS4Bill at triad.rr.comTue Mar 11 18:48:26 UTC 2008
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On Tue, 2008-03-11 at 09:01 -0700, Garrick Staples wrote: > On Tue, Mar 11, 2008 at 12:35:19PM +0000, Mário Gamito alleged: > > Hi, > > > > Sorry for the little bit off-topic. > > > > I have a script that has to performe a hash over a password. > > Problem is that sha512sum expects CTRL-D to be pressed to return to the > > command prompt. > > > > I've searched all over Google, but either I didn't do the right search or > > there is nothing relevant about this. > > > > Bottom line is that I need this command to print the password hash and > > returns to the shell automatically: > > > > $ sha512sum | xargs echo "password" | cut -f2 -d' ' > > > > Any help would be appreciated. > > Do you mean this? > echo "password" | sha512sum You might try stdio re-direction: passwd=<your_password> passwd <<EOF $passwd EOF unset passwd > <snip sig stuff> HTH -- Bill
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