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SUM

Section: User Commands (1)
Updated: September 2017
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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.

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

GNU coreutils online help: <http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/>
Report sum translation bugs to <http://translationproject.org/team/>  

COPYRIGHT

Copyright © 2017 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

Full documentation at: <http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/sum>
or available locally via: info aq(coreutils) sum invocationaq


 

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