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b3sum
A command line utility for calculating
BLAKE3 hashes, similar to
Coreutils tools like b2sum or md5sum.
Usage: b3sum [OPTIONS] [FILE]...
Arguments:
[FILE]... Files to hash, or checkfiles to check
Options:
-l, --length <LEN> The number of output bytes, before hex encoding [default: 32]
--num-threads <NUM> The maximum number of threads to use
--keyed Use the keyed mode
--derive-key <CONTEXT> Use the key derivation mode, with the given context string
--no-mmap Disable memory mapping
--no-names Omit filenames in the output
--raw Write raw output bytes to stdout, rather than hex
-c, --check Read BLAKE3 sums from the [FILE]s and check them
--quiet Skip printing OK for each successfully verified file
-h, --help Print help information (use `--help` for more detail)
-V, --version Print version information
See also this document about how the --check flag
works.
Example
Hash the file foo.txt:
b3sum foo.txt
Time hashing a gigabyte of data, to see how fast it is:
# Create a 1 GB file.
head -c 1000000000 /dev/zero > /tmp/bigfile
# Hash it with SHA-256.
time openssl sha256 /tmp/bigfile
# Hash it with BLAKE3.
time b3sum /tmp/bigfile
Installation
Prebuilt binaries are available for Linux, Windows, and macOS (requiring
the unidentified developer
workaround)
on the releases page.
If you've installed Rust and
Cargo,
you can also build b3sum yourself with:
cargo install b3sum
On Linux for example, Cargo will put the compiled binary in
~/.cargo/bin. You might want to add that directory to your $PATH, or
rustup might have done it for you when you installed Cargo.
If you want to install directly from this directory, you can run cargo install --path .. Or you can just build with cargo build --release,
which puts the binary at ./target/release/b3sum.