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 -- Garrick Staples, GNU/Linux HPCC SysAdmin University of Southern California Please avoid sending me Word or PowerPoint attachments. See http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: not available URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20080311/9df3e67a/attachment-0005.sig>