Recently, I needed to compare two DLLs with the same name to see if they were the same. However, my existing Unix knowledge was useless as I do not have the Ubuntu subsystem installed.
So I did what any engineer in my position would do, I asked my more experienced peers.
A Principal Engineer @ work gave me some guidance. They introduced me to a PowerShell utility named Get-FileHash which was exactly what I was looking for.
In my scenario a user had a version of a .DLL installed on their machine of which I needed to ensure was a specific version. Knowing about Get-FileHash allows me to ask the customer to perform the following command and message us the results.
PS > Get-FileHash .\sapnco.dll
Algorithm Hash Path
--------- ---- ----
SHA256 E79E3BC34494C5F9102FBFA61AED2B2177A58CB0DE16B812AD0AAF9B6BA3261F C:\...\sapnco.dll
Then I went ahead and performed the command on my own machine and verified the hashes matched.
Extra TidBit - Checksum On Linux
ubuntu@ip-x-x-x-x:~/app$ sha1sum docker-compose.yml
2571e3153b90517693c2dfc5668746296023ccda docker-compose.yml
Enjoy!