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Given that some OSes treat binary and text files differently (the latter messing around with line endings as you said in your first post), I think you really need a $mode argument to the Digest::SHA::addfile($filename [, $mode]) method.
Otherwise you'd have to do something like this to generate the hash of a file in binary mode:
open the file
set binmode
while (not EOF)
{
    read N-bytes of the file into a buffer   # don't want to read the 
+whole file into memory if it's a big file
    Digest::SHA::add($buffer)
}
close file

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It's easier to just call Digest::SHA::addfile($filename "b")
It might cause fewer problems if Digest::SHA::addfile() defaulted to binary mode.

In reply to Re^5: Digest::SHA gives different values for unix/windows by zork42
in thread Digest::SHA gives different values for unix/windows by rmahin

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