Unixsums is an implementation of the legacy checksum utils (cksum, sum) in Go Language.

Checksum functions provided

• bsdsum (BSD checksum, sum, UNIXsum)
• cksum (UNIX cksum, POSIX cksum)
• sysvsum (UNIX SystemV sum, SYSV checksum, sum -s)

API Documentation

Implementing hash.Hash.
Documentation currently available at Godoc: http://godoc.org/github.com/cxmcc/unixsums

Installing

go get github.com/cxmcc/unixsums

Example

package main

import "github.com/cxmcc/unixsums/cksum"
import "fmt"
import "io"

func main() {
  h := cksum.New()
  io.WriteString(h, "Go is expressive, concise, clean, and efficient.")
  fmt.Printf("cksum: %d", h.Sum32())
  // Output: cksum: 1937373249
}

License

It's MIT License