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shasum:tldr:0a6c4

shasum: Calculate a SHA1 checksum from `stdin`.
$ ${command} | shasum
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The command ${command} | shasum is a Unix command that consists of two parts separated by the pipe symbol (|).

  1. ${command} represents a variable that should be replaced with an actual command. This part of the command is executed first, and its output is then passed to the next part of the command.

  2. | (pipe) is a Unix operator that redirects the output of the preceding command to be used as input for the following command.

  3. shasum is the command that comes after the pipe symbol. It is used to calculate a checksum or hash value of the input data.

In summary, the overall command takes the output of ${command} and passes it as input to the shasum command, which then calculates the hash value of the data received from ${command}.

This explanation was created by an AI. In most cases those are correct. But please always be careful and never run a command you are not sure if it is safe.
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