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. Warm Regards, Mário Gamito -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20080311/03c3d52e/attachment-0004.html>