Check a File Hash

Windows

1. Open PowerShell.
2. To get the SHA-256 for a file: get-filehash <filename>.

To use a different algorithm, e.g. MD5: get-filehash -Algorithm MD5 <filename>.

macOS

1. Open Terminal.
2. shasum -a 256 <filename>.

Linux

1. Open Terminal.
2. sha256sum <filename>.

For MD5 use md5sum <filename>.