Golang : Generate MD5 checksum of a file
This is an update to the previous tutorial on how to generate checksum for a file, except that this tutorial uses the io.Copy
function instead of breaking up the file into chunks. io.Copy
function reads a file content until it reaches EOF and it can be used to copy the file data into a MD5 hash.
package main
import (
"crypto/md5"
"fmt"
"io"
"os"
)
func main() {
file, err := os.Open("utf8.txt")
if err != nil {
panic(err)
}
defer file.Close()
hash := md5.New()
_, err = io.Copy(hash, file)
if err != nil {
panic(err)
}
fmt.Printf("%s MD5 checksum is %x \n", file.Name(), hash.Sum(nil))
}
Sample output :
utf8.txt MD5 checksum is 5af1ca1d92340d72a29c194d3f4096e0
See also : Generate checksum for a file in Go
By Adam Ng
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