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cksum (1g)

Name

cksum - checksum and count the bytes in a file

Synopsis

cksum [FILE]...
cksum [OPTION]

Description

CKSUM(1)                         User Commands                        CKSUM(1)



NAME
       cksum - checksum and count the bytes in a file

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
       Report cksum 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 cksum translation bugs to <http://translationproject.org/team/>

COPYRIGHT
       Copyright  (C) 2012 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.


ATTRIBUTES
       See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:


       +---------------+--------------------+
       |ATTRIBUTE TYPE |  ATTRIBUTE VALUE   |
       +---------------+--------------------+
       |Availability   | file/gnu-coreutils |
       +---------------+--------------------+
       |Stability      | Uncommitted        |
       +---------------+--------------------+
SEE ALSO
       The full documentation for cksum is maintained as a Texinfo manual.  If
       the info and cksum programs are properly installed at  your  site,  the
       command

              info coreutils 'cksum invocation'

       should give you access to the complete manual.



NOTES
       This     software     was    built    from    source    available    at
       https://java.net/projects/solaris-userland.   The  original   community
       source   was  downloaded  from   http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/coreutils/core-
       utils-8.16.tar.xz

       Further information about this software can be found on the open source
       community website at http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/.



GNU coreutils 8.16                March 2012                          CKSUM(1)