get checksum based on a string in shell script

Question

when i use

echo -n "$str" |sha224sum

it gets me the checksum ends with "-"

how to get the checksum without it ?

Thanks

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score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Sep 03 '20 at 17:14

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Cut the first field:

$ echo -n "$str" | sha224sum  | cut -d' ' -f1
23097d223405d8228642a477bda255b32aadbce4bda0b3f7e36c9da7

answered Sep 03 '20 at 17:14

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