sum (1) Linux Manual Page

sum – checksum and count the blocks in a file

Synopsis

sum [,OPTION/]… [,FILE/]…

Description

Print checksum and block counts for each FILE.

With no FILE, or when FILE is -, read standard input.

-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

Author

Written by Kayvan Aghaiepour and David MacKenzie.

Reporting Bugs

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Copyright

Copyright © 2020 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.

See Also

Full documentation <https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/sum>
or available locally via: info ‘(coreutils) sum invocation’