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SUM(1) User Commands SUM(1)
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: <https://www.gnu.org/software/core‐
utils/>
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ject.org/team/>
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'
GNU coreutils 8.32 April 2020 SUM(1)