cksum - Man Page
checksum and count the bytes in a file
Examples (TL;DR)
- Display a 32 bit checksum, size in bytes and filename:
cksum filename
Synopsis
cksum [FILE]...
cksum [OPTION]
Description
Print CRC checksum and byte counts of each FILE.
- --help
display this help and exit
- --version
output version information and exit
Author
Written by Q. Frank Xia.
Reporting Bugs
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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/cksum>
or available locally via: info '(coreutils) cksum invocation'
Referenced By
cksum(n), md5.3bsd(3), mtree(5).
February 2021 GNU coreutils 8.32