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cksum

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2. Synopsis
3. Examples

1. Name

cksum [man page] - checksum and count the bytes in a file

2. Synopsis

cksum [FILE]...
 cksum [OPTION]

3. Examples

Create file with following text:

echo "Samba file and printer sharing is supported by all Linux Distributions:
  Suse Linux, Debian Linux, Mandrake Linux, Red Hat Linux,
  Fedora Linux, Gentoo Linux ." > file.txt

$ cksum file.txt

cksum calculate a cyclic redundancy check (CRC) of given file. Users can check the integrity of file and see if the file has been modified. use your favorite text editor and remove a "." from the end of the sentence.

$ cat file.txt

$ cksum file.txt

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