Question

0.13 What is Sum command?​

Answer 1

Answer:

sum

Unix-like operating system command

sum is a legacy utility available on some Unix and Unix-like operating systems. This utility outputs the checksum of each argument file, as well as the number of blocks they take on disk.

Answer 2

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sum command in Linux is used to find checksum and count the blocks in a file. Basically, this command is used to show the checksum and block count for each specified file. When no file is specified then it will read the standard input.

Syntax:

sum [OPTION]... [FILE]...

Example: It will ask for the input of the file we want to calculate the checksum. In the following example, we are calculating the checksum for myfile.txt.