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Expand Up @@ -70,7 +70,15 @@ documentation of the latest stable version.

Stable, LTS and Nightly download directories all contain a *SHASUM256.txt*
file that lists the SHA checksums for each file available for
download. To check that a downloaded file matches the checksum, run
download.

The *SHASUM256.txt* can be downloaded using curl.

```
$ curl -O https://nodejs.org/dist/vx.y.z/SHASUMS256.txt
```

To check that a downloaded file matches the checksum, run
it through `sha256sum` with a command such as:

```
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