github.com/rstandt/terraform@v0.12.32-0.20230710220336-b1063613405c/website/docs/configuration/functions/filemd5.html.md (about) 1 --- 2 layout: "functions" 3 page_title: "filemd5 - Functions - Configuration Language" 4 sidebar_current: "docs-funcs-crypto-filemd5" 5 description: |- 6 The filemd5 function computes the MD5 hash of the contents of 7 a given file and encodes it as hex. 8 --- 9 10 # `filemd5` Function 11 12 -> **Note:** This page is about Terraform 0.12 and later. For Terraform 0.11 and 13 earlier, see 14 [0.11 Configuration Language: Interpolation Syntax](../../configuration-0-11/interpolation.html). 15 16 `filemd5` is a variant of [`md5`](./md5.html) 17 that hashes the contents of a given file rather than a literal string. 18 19 This is similar to `md5(file(filename))`, but 20 because [`file`](./file.html) accepts only UTF-8 text it cannot be used to 21 create hashes for binary files.