[ILUG] Generating MD5 Checksums

[Leo Talbot]

On Wed, May 10, 2000 at 12:45:31PM +0100, Anton Mc Kee wrote:
> Sorry for the silly question but how do I generate a md5sum of a directory
> recursivly?

You could create a tar file, and get the md5sum of that, or you could use 
find.

something like 
   
   find . -exec md5sum {} \;

Of course, this will give you md5sums for each individual file, but if you 
dumped the results into a file, and then got the md5sum of that...

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