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| page_title: filesha512 - Functions - Configuration Language |
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| The filesha512 function computes the SHA512 hash of the contents of |
| a given file and encodes it as hex. |
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| # `filesha512` Function |
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| `filesha512` is a variant of [`sha512`](/language/functions/sha512) |
| that hashes the contents of a given file rather than a literal string. |
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| This is similar to `sha512(file(filename))`, but |
| because [`file`](/language/functions/file) accepts only UTF-8 text it cannot be used to |
| create hashes for binary files. |
