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+.\" DO NOT MODIFY THIS FILE! It was generated by help2man 1.35.
+.TH SHA256SUM "1" "March 2007" "GNU coreutils 6.9" "User Commands"
+.SH NAME
+sha256sum \- compute and check SHA256 message digest
+.SH SYNOPSIS
+.B sha256sum
+[\fIOPTION\fR] [\fIFILE\fR]...
+.SH DESCRIPTION
+.\" Add any additional description here
+.PP
+Print or check SHA256 (256\-bit) checksums.
+With no FILE, or when FILE is \-, read standard input.
+.TP
+\fB\-b\fR, \fB\-\-binary\fR
+read in binary mode
+.TP
+\fB\-c\fR, \fB\-\-check\fR
+read SHA256 sums from the FILEs and check them
+.TP
+\fB\-t\fR, \fB\-\-text\fR
+read in text mode (default)
+.SS "The following two options are useful only when verifying checksums:"
+.TP
+\fB\-\-status\fR
+don't output anything, status code shows success
+.TP
+\fB\-w\fR, \fB\-\-warn\fR
+warn about improperly formatted checksum lines
+.TP
+\fB\-\-help\fR
+display this help and exit
+.TP
+\fB\-\-version\fR
+output version information and exit
+.PP
+The sums are computed as described in FIPS\-180\-2. When checking, the input
+should be a former output of this program. The default mode is to print
+a line with checksum, a character indicating type (`*' for binary, ` ' for
+text), and name for each FILE.
+.SH AUTHOR
+Written by Ulrich Drepper, Scott Miller, and David Madore.
+.SH "REPORTING BUGS"
+Report bugs to <bug\-coreutils@gnu.org>.
+.SH COPYRIGHT
+Copyright \(co 2007 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+.br
+This is free software. You may redistribute copies of it under the terms of
+the GNU General Public License <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>.
+There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.
+.SH "SEE ALSO"
+The full documentation for
+.B sha256sum
+is maintained as a Texinfo manual. If the
+.B info
+and
+.B sha256sum
+programs are properly installed at your site, the command
+.IP
+.B info sha256sum
+.PP
+should give you access to the complete manual.