sha256sum

Options

--binary, -b

hashsum-help-binary-other

--check, -c

hashsum-help-check

--tag

hashsum-help-tag

--text, -t

hashsum-help-text-other

--quiet, -q

hashsum-help-quiet

--status, -s

hashsum-help-status

--strict

hashsum-help-strict

--ignore-missing

hashsum-help-ignore-missing

--warn, -w

hashsum-help-warn

--zero, -z

hashsum-help-zero

Examples

Calculate the SHA256 checksum for one or more files:

sha256sum {{path/to/file1 path/to/file2 ...}}

Calculate and save the list of SHA256 checksums to a file:

sha256sum {{path/to/file1 path/to/file2 ...}} > {{path/to/file.sha256}}

Calculate a SHA256 checksum from stdin:

{{command}} | sha256sum

Read a file of SHA256 checksums and filenames and verify all files have matching checksums:

sha256sum {{[-c|--check]}} {{path/to/file.sha256}}

Only show a message for missing files or when verification fails:

sha256sum {{[-c|--check]}} --quiet {{path/to/file.sha256}}

Only show a message when verification fails, ignoring missing files:

sha256sum --ignore-missing {{[-c|--check]}} --quiet {{path/to/file.sha256}}

Check a known SHA256 checksum of a file:

echo {{known_sha256_checksum_of_the_file}} {{path/to/file}} | sha256sum {{[-c|--check]}}

The examples are provided by the tldr-pages project under the CC BY 4.0 License.

Please note that, as uutils is a work in progress, some examples might fail.