> It would be very helpful to have a "recursive" option in md5sum (or any > other *sum utility, for that matter). That way, an entire directory tree > could be summed into a file in order to do integrity checking (with > the "check" flag) at later dates. For example: > > % md5sum -r /home/foo > /home/bar/check.md5 > > md5sums everything in the /home/foo path so that: > > % md5sum -c /home/bar/check.md5 > > can validate the entire /home/foo tree. I have attached a rough, but > working, patch to md5sum.c to facilitate this option. I hope you find > this suggestion helpful!
The inclusion of patches is most rare and very nice to see. However, I disagree that this functionality should exist [fill in your favorite command here]. Note that this functionality already exists using 'find'. The find and xargs commands are designed to operate with all of the commands find . -type f -print0 | xargs -0 md5sum I responded to similar questions with the following. http://mail.gnu.org/pipermail/bug-fileutils/2001-June/001773.html http://mail.gnu.org/pipermail/bug-fileutils/2000-September/000008.html Bob _______________________________________________ Bug-textutils mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-textutils
