Using openssl for generating a SHA1 Hash

Today, i stumbled a website, where it had some good resource of generating a SHA1 hash of a file using the executable command ‘openssl’. SHA1 is a Hash used for checking the integrity of the file. The command for generating the hash is

openssl dgst -sha1 <filename>

For example, consider a file image.jpg. The command that will generate a SHA1 digest is

openssl dgst -sha1 image.jpg

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