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PROGRAM:

NAME


cksum, sum — display file checksums and block counts

SYNOPSIS


cksum [-o 1 | 2 | 3] [file ...]
sum [file ...]

DESCRIPTION


The cksum utility writes to the standard output three whitespace separated fields for each
input file. These fields are a checksum CRC, the total number of octets in the file and the
file name. If no file name is specified, the standard input is used and no file name is
written.

The sum utility is identical to the cksum utility, except that it defaults to using historic
algorithm 1, as described below. It is provided for compatibility only.

The options are as follows:

-o Use historic algorithms instead of the (superior) default one.

Algorithm 1 is the algorithm used by historic BSD systems as the sum(1) algorithm
and by historic AT&T System V UNIX systems as the sum(1) algorithm when using the -r
option. This is a 16-bit checksum, with a right rotation before each addition;
overflow is discarded.

Algorithm 2 is the algorithm used by historic AT&T System V UNIX systems as the
default sum(1) algorithm. This is a 32-bit checksum, and is defined as follows:

s = sum of all bytes;
r = s % 2^16 + (s % 2^32) / 2^16;
cksum = (r % 2^16) + r / 2^16;

Algorithm 3 is what is commonly called the ‘32bit CRC’ algorithm. This is a 32-bit
checksum.

Both algorithm 1 and 2 write to the standard output the same fields as the default
algorithm except that the size of the file in bytes is replaced with the size of the
file in blocks. For historic reasons, the block size is 1024 for algorithm 1 and
512 for algorithm 2. Partial blocks are rounded up.

The default CRC used is based on the polynomial used for CRC error checking in the
networking standard ISO/IEC 8802-3:1989. The CRC checksum encoding is defined by the
generating polynomial:

G(x) = x^32 + x^26 + x^23 + x^22 + x^16 + x^12 +
x^11 + x^10 + x^8 + x^7 + x^5 + x^4 + x^2 + x + 1

Mathematically, the CRC value corresponding to a given file is defined by the following
procedure:

The n bits to be evaluated are considered to be the coefficients of a mod 2 polynomial
M(x) of degree n-1. These n bits are the bits from the file, with the most
significant bit being the most significant bit of the first octet of the file and the
last bit being the least significant bit of the last octet, padded with zero bits (if
necessary) to achieve an integral number of octets, followed by one or more octets
representing the length of the file as a binary value, least significant octet first.
The smallest number of octets capable of representing this integer are used.

M(x) is multiplied by x^32 (i.e., shifted left 32 bits) and divided by G(x) using mod
2 division, producing a remainder R(x) of degree <= 31.

The coefficients of R(x) are considered to be a 32-bit sequence.

The bit sequence is complemented and the result is the CRC.

EXIT STATUS


The cksum and sum utilities exit 0 on success, and >0 if an error occurs.

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