WHIRLPOOLSUM(1p)

✨ WHIRLPOOLSUM ✨

okay bestie, so this is a page from the User Contributed Perl Documentation collection, and it's literally just called whirlpoolsum 💅 iykyk

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🌊 NAME 🌊

whirlpoolsum — print or check WHIRLPOOL checksums 🌀✨

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💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

So basically? It prints or checks WHIRLPOOL (512-bit) checksums. That's it, that's the whole vibe. 🎀

And the little detail that matters: if you give it no FILE, or if the FILE is literally just -, then it reads from standard input. yes queen, the pipe. the stdin. the whole "cat something | whirlpoolsum" moment. 🫶

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🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

whirlpoolsum [OPTION] [FILE]...

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👑 OPTIONS 👑

she has options. all six of them. not me being obsessed with a checksum tool 😭

• -b, --binary — reads the files in binary mode. raw. unfiltered. the file exactly as it is 🍓
• -c, --check — reads WHIRLPOOL sums out of the FILEs and checks them. this is the "wait, is this download actually correct" mode, and honestly? iconic 💅
• -t, --text — reads the files in text mode. also known as the default, so if you do nothing, this is what you get. the chill one. the main character 🧚
• -s, --status — don't output anything at all 🙈 the status code is what tells you if it succeeded. silence, but make it informative ✨
• -h, --help — prints a usage message listing all the available options. the "bestie explain urself" button 🌸
• -v, --version — prints the version number, then exits successfully. a little flex, then she's gone 💫

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🌈 AUTHOR 🌈

Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avar@cpan.org> — thank u for ur service, legend 🫡💜

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📜 LICENSE 📜

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself. periodt. 💖

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okay that's the whole page!! this one's from perl v5.40.0, dated 2024-12-09, and yes the footer really does say WHIRLPOOLSUM(1p) in the corner like a little signature 🎀 go forth and checksum, bestie, u got this 🦋✨