Calculate the MD5 hash of a file using a Python oneliner

md5 md5

Source

• https://stackoverflow.com/a/16876405/
• https://gist.github.com/FMeinicke/a312e3069a573428afcdec92eee76ee0

$ python -c "import sys, hashlib; from pathlib import Path; print(f'{sys.argv[1]}: {hashlib.md5(Path(sys.argv[1]).read_bytes()).hexdigest()}')" /path/to/file
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