How to generate a SHA-256 hash for a string on MacOS?

Question

macOS

You need to generate a SHA-256 hash for a variable string from AppleScript. What is the best way to do this?

Answer 1

The sha1 command is shorthand for
cksum -a sha1
The cksum(1) command can also be used to compute digests from the SHA-2
family: sha256, sha384 and sha512.

Answer 2

Here is the line for SHA-256:
echo -n "какая-то строка" | shasum -a 256