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Get md5 of file without getting all content. It's very pythonic
#!/usr/bin/env python
import sys, hashlib
m = hashlib.md5()
with open(sys.argv[1], "rb") as fp:
for chunk in iter(lambda :fp.read(128 * m.block_size), ""):
m.update(chunk)
print m.hexdigest()
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