github.com/muratcelep/terraform@v1.1.0-beta2-not-internal-4/website/docs/language/functions/filesha1.html.md (about) 1 --- 2 layout: "language" 3 page_title: "filesha1 - Functions - Configuration Language" 4 sidebar_current: "docs-funcs-crypto-filesha1" 5 description: |- 6 The filesha1 function computes the SHA1 hash of the contents of 7 a given file and encodes it as hex. 8 --- 9 10 # `filesha1` Function 11 12 `filesha1` is a variant of [`sha1`](./sha1.html) 13 that hashes the contents of a given file rather than a literal string. 14 15 This is similar to `sha1(file(filename))`, but 16 because [`file`](./file.html) accepts only UTF-8 text it cannot be used to 17 create hashes for binary files.