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sha1sum

This is a command that computes a SHA-1 checksum for a list of files.

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Most (all?) Linux distributions incorporate this from the GNU Coreutils: and use its man page

Related commands

These are related to summarizing the contents of files.

• wc
• sum
• cksum
• md5sum
• sha2 utilities

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