customize output of command “openssl dgst -hmac”

Question

I want to compute the HMAC of file A.txt and put it into file A_hmac.txt. I use openss library, now I have:

openssl dgst -hmac "myHmacKey" -out A_hmac.txt A.txt

The output, inside A_hmac.txt, is:

HMAC-SHA256(A.txt)= 5aaee07459e341752...

How do I manage to have as output only:

5aaee07459e341752...

Thanks

kelalaka · Accepted Answer · 2021-01-11 17:20:03Z

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Though, Not an OpenSSL solution, In Linux;

openssl dgst -hmac "myHmacKey" output.txt

outputs

HMAC-SHA256(output.txt)= 3bcf4e453c9b8008035e7f5e0ea84f092f795fc602bb3adccfde0f916dd565b2

The using the cut on the space char

openssl dgst -hmac "myHmacKey"  output.txt  | rev | cut   -d' ' -f1 | rev > myHmacKey

Then cat myHmacKey outputs

3bcf4e453c9b8008035e7f5e0ea84f092f795fc602bb3adccfde0f916dd565b2

answered Jan 11 at 14:34

kelalaka

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Thanks, this will work for me because my file has no space in their name. However, I will keep my question alive in order to cover spaced names, just for academy. – Francesco Pagani Jan 12 at 12:46
The original answer, check the history, was not considering the space. Later I've thought that the filenames can contain spaces so I've updated the answer to deal with the two cases. – kelalaka Jan 12 at 12:51

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