debian man page for nettle-hash

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NAME
       nettle-hash - compute message digests

SYNOPSIS
       nettle-hash -a ALGORITHM [OPTIONS] [FILE]...

DESCRIPTION
       This manual page documents briefly the nettle-hash command.  This manual page was written for the Debian GNU/Linux distribution because the
       original program does not have a manual page.  Instead, it has documentation in the GNU Info format; see below.

       nettle-hash is a program that computes various message digests.	The output is different from the familiar md5sum and sha*sum  family.  For
       each file, the file name and a colon is printed first, unless input is read from standard input, in which case nothing is printed. Then the
       hash is printed in chunks of 64 bits (16 hexadecimal digits) followed by the name of the algorithm. In raw (binary) mode, the hash  is  not
       split in chunks and is not followed by a newline.

OPTIONS
       This program follows the usual GNU command line syntax, with long options starting with two dashes (`-').  A summary of options is included
       below.  For a complete description, see the Info files.

       -a, --algorithm=algorithm
	      Compute hash using algorithm.

       -l, --length=length
	      Truncate digests at length octets. It is an error to specify a length greater than the normal length of the selected digest.

       --list List supported hash algorithms.

       --help Show summary of options.

       -V, --version
	      Show version of program.

SEE ALSO
       md5sum(1), sha1sum(1), etc.

AUTHOR
       This manual page was originally written by Magnus Holmgren <holmgren@debian.org>, for the Debian GNU/Linux system (but may be used by  oth-
       ers).

nettle 2.2							     July 2011							      SEXP-CONV(1)