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The filemd5 function computes the MD5 hash of the contents of | |
a given file and encodes it as hex. | |
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# `filemd5` Function | |
`filemd5` is a variant of [`md5`](/language/functions/md5) | |
that hashes the contents of a given file rather than a literal string. | |
This is similar to `md5(file(filename))`, but | |
because [`file`](/language/functions/file) accepts only UTF-8 text it cannot be used to | |
create hashes for binary files. |