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SHA512SUM(1) General Commands Manual SHA512SUM(1)

NAME

sha512sum - Print or check the SHA512 checksums

SYNOPSIS

sha512sum [-c|--check] [-w|--warn] [--status] [--quiet] [--ignore-missing] [--strict] [--tag] [-t|--text] [-z|--zero] [-h|--help] [-V|--version] [file]

DESCRIPTION

Print or check the SHA512 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 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.

2026-06-04