SUM

Section: User Commands (1)
Updated: June 2012
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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/>
Report sum translation bugs to <http://translationproject.org/team/>  

COPYRIGHT

Copyright © 2010 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.


 

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SYNOPSIS
DESCRIPTION
AUTHOR
REPORTING BUGS
COPYRIGHT
SEE ALSO

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