-={ Friday, 30 September 2016, 03:08:50.904363019 -0700 }=-   
      
   Hey Alan!   
      
    AI> Do you happen to know if it's possible to use this utility to get   
    AI> a CRC-32 value for a file?   
      
   Yes.  Try this;   
      
     cksum filename | cut -f1 -d' '   
      
   which will just output the checksum and trim off the byte count and filename.   
      
    AI> Example: Crc B0A29EE6   
      
     printf "Crc %x\n" $(cksum filename | cut -f1 -d' ')   
      
   However it will output without caps - Example: Crc 53a7b0cd   
      
   If that is an issue then something like this might be better;   
      
     echo "Crc $(printf "%x" $(cksum filename | cut -f1 -d' ') | tr '[:lower:]'   
   '[:upper:]')"   
      
   which will result in 'Crc 53A7B0CD' instead of 'Crc 53a7b0cd'.  Looking at it   
   as a oneliner I am thinking gawk might be a better solution but then where is   
   the fun in that?   
      
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