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Compute checksums and the number of blocks for a file. A predecessor to the more modern `cksum`.

Options (1)

-s, --sysvboolean

Compute a checksum with System V-compatible algorithm and 512-byte blocks

Example: sum {{[-s|--sysv]}} {{path/to/file}}

Compute a checksum with BSD-compatible algorithm and 1024-byte blocks

sum path/to/file

Compute a checksum with System V-compatible algorithm and 512-byte blocks

sum [-s|--sysv] path/to/file