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SHA512SUM(1) User Commands SHA512SUM(1)

NAME

sha512sum - compute and check SHA512 message digest

SYNOPSIS

sha512sum [OPTION]... [FILE]...

DESCRIPTION

Print or check SHA512 (512-bit) checksums.

With no FILE, or when FILE is -, read standard input.

read in binary mode
read SHA512 sums from the FILEs and check them
create a BSD-style checksum
read in text mode (default)
end each output line with NUL, not newline, and disable file name escaping

The following five options are useful only when verifying checksums:

don't fail or report status for missing files
don't print OK for each successfully verified file
don't output anything, status code shows success
exit non-zero for improperly formatted checksum lines
warn about improperly formatted checksum lines
display this help and exit
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 program. The default mode is to print a line with checksum, a space, a character indicating input mode ('*' for binary, ' ' for text or where binary is insignificant), and name for each FILE.

Note: There is no difference between binary mode and text mode on GNU systems.

AUTHOR

Written by Ulrich Drepper, Scott Miller, and David Madore.

REPORTING BUGS

GNU coreutils online help: <https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/>
Report sha512sum translation bugs to <https://translationproject.org/team/>

COPYRIGHT

Copyright © 2018 Free Software Foundation, Inc. License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <https://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

Full documentation at: <https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/sha512sum>
or available locally via: info '(coreutils) sha2 utilities'

July 2018 GNU coreutils 8.30