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Getting a file hash in powershell

Mar 26, 2016 • 1 min read

To get the MD5 hash of a file run the following command in powershell:

get-filehash -algorithm md5 <filename>

Similarly, to get the SHA1 hash run:

get-filehash -algorithm sha1 <filename>

If you just need the hash value output:

(get-filehash -algorithm md5 <filename>).Hash

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