Ah, reminder to self to read the entire thread before responding, apologies for the noise all ...
I would add that variants of mtree can be found on non-NetBSD systems also - I use it a lot on Linux but have also used it on Solaris and FreeBSD and in most cases the spec files are interchangeable Regards, Malcolm On Sun, 25 Oct 2026, at 09:20, Martin Neitzel wrote: >> I do it at the application level using a short Tcl script recording >> MD5 hashes of the files. It's a manual process. > > Perhaps a small reminder that we have mtree(8) in base: > > It can compile checksums and metadata (owner, permissons, ...) of > a file hierarchy into compact summary, check a hierarchy against > such a summary, and "repair" a hierachy in different ways. > > Martin -- Malcolm Herbert [email protected]
