[ILUG-D] 1D1C - sha1sum , sha256sum

sha1sum - compute and check SHA1 message digest

syntax $ sha1sum [OPTION] [FILE_NAME]

To create the SHA-1 of a file $ sha1sum example.txt

To create the SHA-256 of a file $ sha256sum example.txt

To write the SHA-1 of a file to a file $ sha1sum example.txt > example.sha1

add some contents to example.txt and check with $ sha1sum -c example.sha1 example.txt: FAILED sha1sum: WARNING: 1 computed checksum did NOT match

updated the SHA-1 file against the example.txt $ sha1sum new.txt > example.sha1 $ sha1sum -c example.sha1 example.txt: OK

To forcefully change the command’s capabilities to read in binary mode $ sha1sum -b example.sha1

To print help commands $ sha1sum - -help

To get a list of other sha-related commands $ sha

regards, T.Dhanasekar