sha256sum
(1)
Name
sha256sum - compute and check SHA256 message digest
Synopsis
sha256sum [OPTION]... [FILE]...
Description
User Commands SHA256SUM(1)
NAME
sha256sum - compute and check SHA256 message digest
SYNOPSIS
sha256sum [OPTION]... [FILE]...
DESCRIPTION
Print or check SHA256 (256-bit) checksums. With no FILE, or
when FILE is -, read standard input.
-b, --binary
read in binary mode
-c, --check
read SHA256 sums from the FILEs and check them
-t, --text
read in text mode (default)
The following three options are useful only when verifying
checksums:
--quiet
don't print OK for each successfully verified file
--status
don't output anything, status code shows success
-w, --warn
warn about improperly formatted checksum lines
--strict
with --check, exit non-zero for any invalid input
--help
display this help and exit
--version
output version information and exit
The sums are computed as described in FIPS-180-2. When
checking, the input should be a former output of this pro-
gram. The default mode is to print a line with checksum, a
character indicating input mode ('*' for binary, space for
text), and name for each FILE.
AUTHOR
Written by Ulrich Drepper, Scott Miller, and David Madore.
REPORTING BUGS
Report sha256sum bugs to [email protected]
GNU coreutils home page: <http://www.gnu.org/software/core-
utils/>
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User Commands SHA256SUM(1)
General help using GNU software: <http://www.gnu.org/geth-
elp/>
Report sha256sum translation bugs to <http://translationpro-
ject.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 redis-
tribute 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 sha256sum is maintained as a Tex-
info manual. If the info and sha256sum programs are prop-
erly installed at your site, the command
info coreutils 'sha256sum 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/coreutils-8.16.tar.xz
Further information about this software can be found on the
open source community website at http://www.gnu.org/soft-
ware/coreutils/.
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