Re: md5sum lots of files

[Grok Mogger <linuximp@gmail.com>]

Dave Carrigan wrote:
> On Oct 20, 2006, at 6:58 AM, Grok Mogger wrote:
>
> > I have about 36 GB of files on a hard disk that I've transfered to 
> > another disk.  I'd like to cksum or md5sum the files just to make sure 
> > that they were all copied well.  I can't seem to find a way to recurse 
> > through the directories and do this to a lot of files.  I've looked 
> > around a lot, and finding nothing I'm about to start writing my own 
> > script, but I thought I'd ask here first.  It just seems like 
> > something that there would be a way to do already, and I'm just 
> > missing it.
>
> cd /source/dir
> find . -type f -print0 | xargs -0 md5sum > /tmp/source.sums
> cd /dest/dir
> find . -type f -print0 | xargs -0 md5sum > /tmp/dest.sums
> diff -u /tmp/source.sums /tmp/dest.sums
>
> --Dave Carrigan
> Seattle, WA, USA
> dave@rudedog.org | http://www.rudeog.org

Thanks, I thought something like that was probably doable, but 
my bash skills are not at the point where I could have figured 
it out on my own.

Thanks,
-GM