github.com/muratcelep/terraform@v1.1.0-beta2-not-internal-4/website/docs/language/functions/filesha256.html.md (about) 1 --- 2 layout: "language" 3 page_title: "filesha256 - Functions - Configuration Language" 4 sidebar_current: "docs-funcs-crypto-filesha256" 5 description: |- 6 The filesha256 function computes the SHA256 hash of the contents of 7 a given file and encodes it as hex. 8 --- 9 10 # `filesha256` Function 11 12 `filesha256` is a variant of [`sha256`](./sha256.html) 13 that hashes the contents of a given file rather than a literal string. 14 15 This is similar to `sha256(file(filename))`, but 16 because [`file`](./file.html) accepts only UTF-8 text it cannot be used to 17 create hashes for binary files.