June 2004
Intermediate to advanced
1056 pages
39h 58m
English
cksum
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 filenameHere, 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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