SUM
Section: User Commands (1)
Updated: December 2009
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NAME
sum - checksum and count the blocks in a file
SYNOPSIS
sum
[OPTION]... [FILE]...
DESCRIPTION
Print checksum and block counts for each FILE.
- -r
-
use BSD sum algorithm, use 1K blocks
- -s, --sysv
-
use System V sum algorithm, use 512 bytes blocks
- --help
-
display this help and exit
- --version
-
output version information and exit
With no FILE, or when FILE is -, read standard input.
AUTHOR
Written by Kayvan Aghaiepour and David MacKenzie.
REPORTING BUGS
Report sum bugs to bug-coreutils@gnu.org
GNU coreutils home page: <http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/>
General help using GNU software: <http://www.gnu.org/gethelp/>
COPYRIGHT
Copyright © 2009 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>.
This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it.
There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.
SEE ALSO
The full documentation for
sum
is maintained as a Texinfo manual. If the
info
and
sum
programs are properly installed at your site, the command
-
info coreutils aqsum invocationaq
should give you access to the complete manual.