Calculate the SHA1 checksum of a file

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How to calculate the SHA1 digest of a file in a shell?

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There's a sha1sum tool in GNU coreutils.

Here's

$ sha1sum emptyfile
da39a3ee5e6b4b0d3255bfef95601890afd80709  emptyfile

Note the spaces and the filename (emptyfile in this case) in the output. They may need to be accounted for in pipelines.

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RHash is a popular all-in-one hashing and checksum tool available in most Linux repositories (or can be downloaded from SourceForge). Usage example for sha1 sum:

$ rhash --sha1 file

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