[CentOS] Automatically send CTRL-D

Tue Mar 11 16:01:52 UTC 2008
Garrick Staples <garrick at usc.edu>

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

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