sum ✔️

sum is a minimal and concurrent CLI file hashing tool.

Flags

-m - specify hash function.

Currently supported:

sha256	default
sha512	-
blake2b	-
blake3	modern & fast
sha1	not recommended
md5	not recommended

Examples

Input

sum data.txt

sum -m blake3 data.txt

sum -m md5 data.txt file2.png bin.exe

Output

aa3ec16e6acc809d8b2818662276256abfd2f1b441cb51574933f3d4bd115d11 data.txt

c7a4b65f79934d742ea07a9e85b3bbb1ab9ad9f42033d8a0698495d0f564c804 data.txt

65e3dd724be2affbda44084e213ea63a bin.exe
764569e58f53ea8b6404f6fa7fc0247f data.txt
79695d7d0054d14d68b513ed997f7946 file2.png

Installation

Prebuilt binaries are available for Windows, Linux, and macOS (both x86 and ARM): download the latest release from the releases page for the desired OS.

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If you have Go installed, the simplest way to get sum is to run:

go install github.com/70sh1/sum@latest

If you are on Linux and using this method, make sure that go bin path is added to your PATH environment variable: e.g. export PATH=$PATH:$HOME/go/bin

Acknowledgements

zeebo/blake3 - blake3 implementation.