Adler32 commandline utility

Name

adler32 – Calculate Adler32 checksum of a stream of data.

Synopsis

adler32

Description

This program takes as input an arbitrarily long stream of bytes and outputs a single hexadecimal Adler32 checksum. It is intended as an alternative to CRC-based checksums which may run a little slower.

All actual computation is performed by zlib.

Example

$ echo test | adler32
0x062801cb

Compilation

Dependencies are as follows

Compile the program as follows:

$ ant

Build a Debian package (having the necessary dependencies for package creation installed) as follows:

$ ant package

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