NAME | SYNOPSIS | DESCRIPTION | AUTHOR | REPORTING BUGS | COPYRIGHT | SEE ALSO | COLOPHON

SHA256SUM(1)                    User Commands                   SHA256SUM(1)

NAME         top

       sha256sum - compute and check SHA256 message digest

SYNOPSIS         top

       sha256sum [OPTION]... [FILE]...

DESCRIPTION         top

       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
       --tag  create a BSD-style checksum
       -t, --text
              read in text mode (default)
   The following five options are useful only when verifying checksums:
       --ignore-missing
              don't fail or report status for missing files
       --quiet
              don't print OK for each successfully verified file
       --status
              don't output anything, status code shows success
       --strict
              exit non-zero for improperly formatted checksum lines
       -w, --warn
              warn about improperly formatted checksum lines
       --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 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.

AUTHOR         top

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

REPORTING BUGS         top

       GNU coreutils online help: <http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/>
       Report sha256sum translation bugs to
       <http://translationproject.org/team/>

COPYRIGHT         top

       Copyright © 2017 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         top

       Full documentation at:
       <http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/sha256sum>
       or available locally via: info '(coreutils) sha2 utilities'

COLOPHON         top

       This page is part of the coreutils (basic file, shell and text
       manipulation utilities) project.  Information about the project can
       be found at ⟨http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/⟩.  If you have a
       bug report for this manual page, see 
       ⟨http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/⟩.  This page was obtained from
       the tarball coreutils-8.27.tar.xz fetched from 
       ⟨http://www.gnutls.org/download.html⟩ on 2017-07-05.  If you discover
       any rendering problems in this HTML version of the page, or you
       believe there is a better or more up-to-date source for the page, or
       you have corrections or improvements to the information in this
       COLOPHON (which is not part of the original manual page), send a mail
       to man-pages@man7.org
GNU coreutils 8.27               March 2017                     SHA256SUM(1)