Name
cksum
Synopsis
cksum [files
]
Calculates and prints a cyclic redundancy check (CRC) for each file.
The CRC algorithm is based on the polynomial used for Ethernet
packets. For each file, cksum
prints a line of the
form:
sum count filename
Here, sum
is the CRC,
count
is the number of bytes in the file,
and filename
is the
file’s name. The name is omitted if standard input
is used.
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