sum

Options

-r

sum-help-bsd-compatible

--sysv, -s

sum-help-sysv-compatible

Examples

Compute a checksum with BSD-compatible algorithm and 1024-byte blocks:

sum {{path/to/file}}

Compute a checksum with System V-compatible algorithm and 512-byte blocks:

sum {{[-s|--sysv]}} {{path/to/file}}

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.