github.com/hugorut/terraform@v1.1.3/website/docs/language/functions/filesha1.mdx (about) 1 --- 2 page_title: filesha1 - Functions - Configuration Language 3 description: |- 4 The filesha1 function computes the SHA1 hash of the contents of 5 a given file and encodes it as hex. 6 --- 7 8 # `filesha1` Function 9 10 `filesha1` is a variant of [`sha1`](/language/functions/sha1) 11 that hashes the contents of a given file rather than a literal string. 12 13 This is similar to `sha1(file(filename))`, but 14 because [`file`](/language/functions/file) accepts only UTF-8 text it cannot be used to 15 create hashes for binary files.