xxhsum(1) -- print or check xxHash non-cryptographic checksums

SYNOPSIS

xxhsum [] ... [] ...

DESCRIPTION

Print or check xxHash (32 or 64bit) checksums. When is -, read standard input.

xxhsum supports a command line syntax similar but not indentical to md5sum(1). Differences are: xxhsum doesn't have text/binary mode switch (-b, -t); xxhsum always treats file as binary file; xxhsum has hash bit width switch (-H);

Since xxHash is non-cryptographic checksum algorithm, xxhsum should not be used any more for security related purposes.

OPTIONS

-b: Benchmark mode
-B: specifies benchmark mode's test data block size in bytes. Default value is 102400
-c, --check: Read xxHash sums from the s and check them
-h: Display help and exit
-H: Hash selection. means 0=32bits, 1=64bits. Default value is 1 (64bits)
--little-endian: Set output hexadecimal checksum value as little endian convention. By default, value is displayed as big endian
-V: Display xxhsum version

The following four options are useful only when verifying checksums (-c)

--quiet: Exit non-zero for improperly formatted checksum lines
--strict: Don't print OK for each successfully verified file
--status: Don't output anything, status code shows success
-w, --warn: Warn about improperly formatted checksum lines

EXIT STATUS

xxhsum exit 0 on success, 1 if at least one file couldn't be read or doesn't have the same checksum as the -c option.

EXAMPLES

Output xxHash (64bit) checksum values of specific files to standard output

$ xxhsum -H1 foo bar baz

Output xxHash (32bit and 64bit) checksum values of specific files to standard output, and redirect it to xyz.xxh32 and qux.xxh64

$ xxhsum -H0 foo bar baz > xyz.xxh32
$ xxhsum -H1 foo bar baz > qux.xxh64

Read xxHash sums from specific files and check them

$ xxhsum -c xyz.xxh32 qux.xxh64

BUGS

Report bugs at: https://github.com/Cyan4973/xxHash/issues/

AUTHOR

Yann Collet

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