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/>

SEE ALSO

Full documentation at: <http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/sum>

or available locally via: info '(coreutils) sum invocation'

COPYRIGHT

Copyright © 2015 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.