SHA512SUM(1)

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💖 SHA512SUM(1) 💖

okay bestie, welcome to the General Commands Manual glow-up of sha512sum — the little icon that prints or checks SHA512 checksums and absolutely ate 💅

✨ NAME ✨

sha512sum — print or check the SHA512 checksums 🎀

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

sha512sum [OPTIONS] [FILE]...

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

Print or check the SHA512 checksums. that's the whole vibe. print them, or check them, your call ✨

💅 OPTIONS 💅

  • -c, --check — read checksums from the FILEs and check them. it's giving verification era 🔥
  • -w, --warn — warn about improperly formatted checksum lines. messy lines get called out, gently 🫶
  • --status — don't output anything at all, the status code shows success. silent but slaying 💀
  • --quiet — don't print OK for each successfully verified file. no notes, just wins ✨
  • --ignore-missing — don't fail or report status for missing files. if it's gone, it's gone, we move on 🧚
  • --strict — exit non-zero for improperly formatted checksum lines. zero tolerance, no cap ⭐
  • --tag — create a BSD style checksum 👑
  • -z, --zero — end each output line with NUL, not newline, and disable file name escaping. NUL girlies rise 🌈
  • -h, --help — Print help 🙈
  • -V, --version — Print version 💜

🌟 VERSION 🌟

v(uutils coreutils) 0.12.0

🍓 EXAMPLES 🍓

Calculate the SHA512 checksum for one or more files:

sha512sum path/to/file1 path/to/file2 ...

Calculate and save the list of SHA512 checksums to a file:

sha512sum path/to/file1 path/to/file2 ... > path/to/file.sha512

Calculate a SHA512 checksum from stdin:

command | sha512sum

Read a file of SHA512 checksums and filenames and verify all files have matching checksums:

sha512sum [-c|--check] path/to/file.sha512

Only show a message for missing files or when verification fails:

sha512sum [-c|--check] --quiet path/to/file.sha512

Only show a message when verification fails, ignoring missing files:

sha512sum --ignore-missing [-c|--check] --quiet path/to/file.sha512

Check a known SHA512 checksum of a file:

echo known_sha512_checksum_of_the_file path/to/file | sha512sum
[-c|--check]
The examples are provided by the tldr-pages project <https://tldr.sh> under the CC BY 4.0 License. Please note that, as uutils is a work in progress, some examples might fail. 😭

okay that's the whole page bestie, mwah 💖 this was the sha512sum(1) from uutils coreutils v0.12.0, dated 2026-09-25 — go forth and checksum, you absolute main character 🎀✨🦋

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