Re: how to write a script that recursively check files in a directory with md5sum

[John Summerfield <debian@ComputerDatasafe.com.au>]

Matthias Czapla wrote:

> On Wed, Jul 14, 2004 at 10:09:18AM -0700, j smith wrote:
>  
>
> > md5sum checks one file a time. i want a script that
> > recursively check files in a directory.Thanks!
> >
> > PS: the script's application: in DOS 6, there is
> > antivirus program called "msav" that check if
> > executables are changed or infected. such program is
> > no longer available is Windows, so i want a script
> > that does this job.
> >    
>
> find ~ -type f -exec cat {} \;
>  
This fails because
cat doesn't check anything - it just copies all files to stdout
It doesn't handle files whose names contain spaces

It's slow because it invokes cat separately for each file. See my 
siggestion.



> Regards
> Matthias
>
>
>  


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