sha256sum — compute and check SHA256 message digest
Examples (TL;DR)
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Calculate the SHA256 checksum for a file:
sha256sum filename1 -
Calculate SHA256 checksums for multiple files:
sha256sum filename1 filename2 -
Read a file of SHA256 sums and verify all files have matching checksums:
sha256sum -c filename.sha256
Synopsis
sha256sum [OPTION]... [FILE]...
Description
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)
- -z, --zero
end each output line with NUL, not newline, and disable file name escaping
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.
Note: There is no difference between binary mode and text mode on GNU systems.
Reporting Bugs
GNU coreutils online help: <https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/>
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Copyright
Copyright © 2019 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 <https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/sha256sum>
or available locally via: info '(coreutils) sha2 utilities'
Referenced By
debsign(1), guestfish(1), guestfs(3), hmac256(1), md5sum(1), openslide-quickhash1sum(1), sha1sum(1), whirlpoolsum(1).