sum(1) - Linux man page

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.

Referenced By

fpga_load(8), pmdashping(1)