sha512sum (1)

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NAME
SYNOPSIS
DESCRIPTION
The following three options are useful only when verifying checksums:
AUTHOR
REPORTING BUGS
COPYRIGHT
SEE ALSO

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.

-b, --binary
read in binary mode
-c, --check
read SHA512 sums from the FILEs and check them
--tag
create a BSD-style checksum
-t, --text
read in text mode (default)

The following three options are useful only when verifying checksums:

--quiet
don't print OK for each successfully verified file
--status
don't output anything, status code shows success
-w, --warn
warn about improperly formatted checksum lines
--strict
with --check, exit non-zero for any invalid input
--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 character indicating input mode ('*' for binary, space for text), and name for each FILE.

AUTHOR

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

REPORTING BUGS

Report sha512sum 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 sha512sum translation bugs to <http://translationproject.org/team/>

COPYRIGHT

Copyright © 2013 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 sha512sum is maintained as a Texinfo manual. If the info and sha512sum programs are properly installed at your site, the command
info coreutils 'sha512sum invocation'

should give you access to the complete manual.