How to get MD5 or SHA checksum using Powershell

Often I need to calculate an MD5 checksum of a file downloaded from Internet. I’m using Powershell command to do it.

How to get file checksum using Powershell

I’m using cmdlet presented in Powershell version 4: Get-FileHash with parameter -Algorithm. This parameter allows to use below algorithms: 

• SHA1
• SHA256
• SHA384
• SHA512
• MD5

Default value is SHA256.

Examples:

Get-FileHash -Algorithm MD5 .\Windows2016.iso

Algorithm       Hash                                                                   Path                                                                              
---------       ----                                                                   ----                                                                              
MD5             80FD169D3FDADBC97E66C168F796B1BF                                       C:\temp\Windows2016.iso     

Check official Microsoft page with information about this Powershell cmdlet.