Daniel Freedman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Hi,
>
> First of all, I've been following slug for a bit as a Kernel Cousin under
> SLUG Pearls, but I've never posted, so I hope this is not an inappropriate
> or off-topic question.
>
> I'm trying to use md5sum (from Gnu Text Utilities) to compute a checksum
> for alot of files in my home directory or root directory. This wouldn't be
> a problem, except that I want it to compute the checksums on all files in
> ALL subdirectories (so that I can compare original with backup copy).
>
> Maybe I'm being immensely stupid, but I don't see an easy way to
> accomplish this with md5sum itself (it responds to directories "md5sum:
> bin: Is a directory"), and I'm evidently not adept enough with shell
> scripting to make this work. I actually looked through the source code to
> think maybe I could modify md5sum itself (in case anyone else wanted to do
> similar checksums), but I quickly got in over my head; the numerical
> simulations I do seem _awfully_ different than coding for applications or
> this type of file access :).
>
> Any suggestions (or script fragments) would be greatly appreciated.
>
> Thanks so much,
>
> Daniel
>
find <dirname> -depth -type f -exec md5sum {} \;
--
:%s/[Ll]inux/GNU\/Linux/g
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