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shasum (1)

Name

shasum - Print or Check SHA Checksums

Synopsis

Usage: shasum [OPTION] [FILE]...
or: shasum [OPTION] --check [FILE]
Print or check SHA checksums.
With no FILE, or when FILE is -, read standard input.

-a, --algorithm    1 (default), 224, 256, 384, 512
-b, --binary       read files in binary mode (default on DOS/Windows)
-c, --check        check SHA sums against given list
-p, --portable     read files in portable mode
produces same digest on Windows/Unix/Mac
-t, --text         read files in text mode (default)

The following two options are useful only when verifying checksums:

-s, --status       don't output anything, status code shows success
-w, --warn         warn about improperly formatted SHA checksum lines

-h, --help         display this help and exit
-v, --version      output version information and exit

The sums are computed as described in FIPS PUB 180-2.  When checking,
the input should be a former output of this program.  The default mode
is to print a line with checksum, a character indicating type (`*'
for binary, `?' for portable, ` ' for text), and name for each FILE.

Description




Perl Programmers Reference Guide                        SHASUM(1)



NAME
     shasum - Print or Check SHA Checksums

SYNOPSIS
      Usage: shasum [OPTION] [FILE]...
         or: shasum [OPTION] --check [FILE]
      Print or check SHA checksums.
      With no FILE, or when FILE is -, read standard input.

       -a, --algorithm    1 (default), 224, 256, 384, 512
       -b, --binary       read files in binary mode (default on DOS/Windows)
       -c, --check        check SHA sums against given list
       -p, --portable     read files in portable mode
                              produces same digest on Windows/Unix/Mac
       -t, --text         read files in text mode (default)

      The following two options are useful only when verifying checksums:

       -s, --status       don't output anything, status code shows success
       -w, --warn         warn about improperly formatted SHA checksum lines

       -h, --help         display this help and exit
       -v, --version      output version information and exit

      The sums are computed as described in FIPS PUB 180-2.  When checking,
      the input should be a former output of this program.  The default mode
      is to print a line with checksum, a character indicating type (`*'
      for binary, `?' for portable, ` ' for text), and name for each FILE.

DESCRIPTION
     The shasum script provides the easiest and most convenient
     way to compute SHA message digests.  Rather than writing a
     program, the user simply feeds data to the script via the
     command line, and waits for the results to be printed on
     standard output.  Data can be fed to shasum through files,
     standard input, or both.

     The following command shows how easy it is to compute
     digests for typical inputs such as the NIST test vector
     "abc":

             perl -e "print qw(abc)" | shasum

     Or, if you want to use SHA-256 instead of the default SHA-1,
     simply say:

             perl -e "print qw(abc)" | shasum -a 256

     Since shasum uses the same interface employed by the
     familiar sha1sum program (and its somewhat outmoded
     anscestor md5sum), you can install this script as a
     convenient drop-in replacement.



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AUTHOR
     Copyright (c) 2003-2008 Mark Shelor <mshelor@cpan.org>.


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

     +---------------+------------------+
     |ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE  |
     +---------------+------------------+
     |Availability   | runtime/perl-512 |
     +---------------+------------------+
     |Stability      | Uncommitted      |
     +---------------+------------------+
SEE ALSO
     shasum is implemented using the Perl module Digest::SHA or
     Digest::SHA::PurePerl.



NOTES
     This software was built from source available at
     https://java.net/projects/solaris-userland.  The original
     community source was downloaded from
     http://www.cpan.org/src/5.0/perl-5.12.5.tar.bz2

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


























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