B2SUM(1)

✨ NAME ✨

okay so bestie, welcome to the B2SUM(1) page from the General Commands Manual — this is b2sum, and she literally prints or checks the BLAKE2b checksums. main character checksum energy fr fr 💅

🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

b2sum [OPTIONS] [FILE]...

🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

b2sum prints or checks the BLAKE2b checksums. That's the whole assignment, and she ate. ✨

💖 OPTIONS 💖

• -c, --check — read checksums from the FILEs and check them. obsessed with the follow-through.
• -w, --warn — warn about improperly formatted checksum lines.
• --status — don't output anything; the status code shows success. quiet luxury.
• --quiet — don't print OK for each successfully verified file.
• --ignore-missing — don't fail or report status for missing files.
• --strict — exit non-zero for improperly formatted checksum lines. no notes, bestie.
• -l, --length — digest length in bits; must not exceed the max size and must be a multiple of 8 for blake2b; must be 224, 256, 384, or 512 for sha2 or sha3. the exact numbers are giving rules are rules.
• --tag — create a BSD style checksum. cute little tag moment.
• -z, --zero — end each output line with NUL, not newline, and disable file name escaping. zero vibes, literally.
• -h, --help — Print help.
• -V, --version — Print version.

👑 VERSION 👑

This version is v(uutils coreutils) 0.12.0. slay.

mwah, bye bestie 💖 — this page is from v(uutils coreutils) 0.12.0, dated 2026-09-17. periodt.