Published April 02, 2022
Often times you may find it necessary to confirm the integrity of a file that you downloaded. This helps confirm that the file hasn't been tampered with or corrupted during transmission. There are a number of different checksums you may use, the most common include: MD5, SHA-1, SHA-256, and SHA-512.
SHA-1
shasum filenameSHA-256
shasum -a 256 filenameSHA-512
shasum -a 512 filenameMD5
md5 filename