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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) 2010 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. 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. GNU coreutils 8.5 February 2011 CKSUM(1)

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SUM(1)								   User Commands							    SUM(1)

NAME
sum - checksum and count the blocks in a file SYNOPSIS
sum [OPTION]... [FILE]... DESCRIPTION
Print checksum and block counts for each FILE. -r use BSD sum algorithm, use 1K blocks -s, --sysv use System V sum algorithm, use 512 bytes blocks --help display this help and exit --version output version information and exit With no FILE, or when FILE is -, read standard input. AUTHOR
Written by Kayvan Aghaiepour and David MacKenzie. REPORTING BUGS
Report sum 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 sum translation bugs to <http://translationproject.org/team/> COPYRIGHT
Copyright (C) 2010 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. SEE ALSO
The full documentation for sum is maintained as a Texinfo manual. If the info and sum programs are properly installed at your site, the command info coreutils 'sum invocation' should give you access to the complete manual. GNU coreutils 8.5 February 2011 SUM(1)
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