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Compute MD5 Checksum Hash on Windows and Linux

Photo of Fahd Shariff Fahd ShariffAugust 5th, 2020Last Updated: August 4th, 2020
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Use the following commands to print out the MD5 hash for a file.

On Windows:

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> CertUtil -hashfile myfile.txt MD5
MD5 hash of file myfile.txt:
76383c2c0bfca944b57a63830c163ad2
CertUtil: -hashfile command completed successfully.

On Linux/Unix:

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$ md5sum.exe myfile.txt
76383c2c0bfca944b57a63830c163ad2 *myfile.txt

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Fahd is a software engineer working in the financial services industry. He is passionate about technology and specializes in Java application development in distributed environments.
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Michael Rabinovitz
Michael Rabinovitz
4 years ago

Are you sure about the “.exe” appended to the *nix version of the command? Isn’t it just
“md5sum myfile.txt”?

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