Re: sha1summ of complete directory?

[Ron Johnson <ron.l.johnson@cox.net>]

On 2009-07-06 20:29, Adrian Levi wrote:
> 2009/7/7 Mark Neidorff <mark@neidorff.com>:
> > On Monday 06 July 2009 08:30 pm, Ron Johnson wrote:
> > > How would one go about computing a *single* hash value for a
> > > complete directory tree?
>
> This is what I was thinking, If you don't want to retain the tar file
> then pipe it to sha1sum.

I was thinking about that, but tar stores metadata that I know are 
different between the two trees, thus invalidating that idea.

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