SUM
Section: User Commands (1)
Updated: September 2011
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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 © 2011 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <
http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.shtml>.
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 'sum invocation'
 
should give you access to the complete manual.
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