Re: md5sum lots of files
On Fri, Oct 20, 2006 at 05:27:23PM -0500, Mike McCarty wrote:
> 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.
>
Sorry, I just suggested cat, but I didn't realize you needed to recurse.
What about using tar then piping its output through sha1sum?
Do that for source and target and compare the results?
Doug.
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