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SHA1SUM(1) General Commands Manual SHA1SUM(1)

NAME

sha1sum - Print or check the SHA1 checksums

SYNOPSIS

sha1sum [-c|--check] [-w|--warn] [--status] [--quiet] [--ignore-missing] [--strict] [--tag] [-t|--text] [-z|--zero] [-h|--help] [-V|--version] [file]

DESCRIPTION

Print or check the SHA1 checksums

OPTIONS

read checksums from the FILEs and check them
warn about improperly formatted checksum lines
don't output anything, status code shows success
don't print OK for each successfully verified file
don't fail or report status for missing files
exit non-zero for improperly formatted checksum lines
create a BSD style checksum
read in text mode (default)
end each output line with NUL, not newline, and disable file name escaping
Print help
Print version

VERSION

v(uutils coreutils) 0.9.0

EXAMPLES

Calculate the SHA1 checksum for one or more files:

sha1sum path/to/file1 path/to/file2 ...

Calculate and save the list of SHA1 checksums to a file:

sha1sum path/to/file1 path/to/file2 ... > path/to/file.sha1

Calculate a SHA1 checksum from `stdin`:

command | sha1sum

Read a file of SHA1 checksums and filenames and verify all files have matching checksums:

sha1sum [-c|--check] path/to/file.sha1

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

sha1sum [-c|--check] --quiet path/to/file.sha1

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

sha1sum --ignore-missing [-c|--check] --quiet path/to/file.sha1

Check a known SHA1 checksum of a file:

echo known_sha1_checksum_of_the_file path/to/file | sha1sum [-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.

2026-06-04