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sha1sum

compute and check SHA1 message digest

sha1sum [OPTION]... [FILE]...

Print or check SHA1 (160-bit) checksums. With no FILE, or when FILE is -, read standard input.

read in binary mode
read SHA1 sums from the FILEs and check them
create a BSD-style checksum
read in text mode (default)

don't print OK for each successfully verified file
don't output anything, status code shows success
warn about improperly formatted checksum lines
with --check, exit non-zero for any invalid input
display this help and exit
output version information and exit

The sums are computed as described in FIPS-180-1. 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.

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

Report sha1sum 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 sha1sum translation bugs to <http://translationproject.org/team/>

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.

The full documentation for sha1sum is maintained as a Texinfo manual. If the info and sha1sum programs are properly installed at your site, the command

info coreutils 'sha1sum invocation'

should give you access to the complete manual.