The common use of hash functions in the Go language

myhash.go

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package main
import (
  "crypto/md5"
  "crypto/sha1"
  "crypto/sha256"
  "crypto/sha512"
  "flag" // Command line options parser 
  "fmt"
  "hash"
  "io"
  "os"
)
var style = flag.String("s", "sha256", " Using the hash function :sha1,sha256")
var filename = flag.String("f", "", " The file name for which the hash value needs to be computed ")
func main() {
  flag.Parse()
  var hs hash.Hash
  switch *style {
  case "md5":
    hs = md5.New()
  case "sha1":
    hs = sha1.New()
  case "sha512":
    hs = sha512.New()
  default:
    hs = sha256.New()
  }
  if len(*filename) == 0 {
    filein, err := os.Open(flag.Args()[len(flag.Args())-1])
    if err != nil {
      return
    } else {
      io.Copy(hs, filein)
    }
  } else {
    filein, err := os.Open(*filename)
    if err != nil {
      return
    } else {
      io.Copy(hs, filein)
    }
  }
  hashString := hs.Sum(nil)
  fmt.Printf("%x\n", hashString)
}

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