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SUM
Section: User Commands (1)
Updated: June 2025
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NAME
sum - checksum and count the blocks in a file
SYNOPSIS
sum
[,OPTION/]... [,FILE/]...
DESCRIPTION
Print or check BSD (16-bit) checksums.
With no FILE, or when FILE is -, read standard input.
- -r
-
use BSD sum algorithm (the default), 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
AUTHOR
Written by Kayvan Aghaiepour and David MacKenzie.
REPORTING BUGS
GNU coreutils online help: <https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/>
Report any translation bugs to <https://translationproject.org/team/>
SEE ALSO
Full documentation <https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/sum>
or available locally via: info '(coreutils) sum invocation'
Packaged by Debian (9.7-3)
Copyright © 2025 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <https://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.
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