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Re: compare two directory trees



On Tue, 14 Dec 2010 16:15:56 +0800, Yuwen Dai wrote:

> I burn DVD/CDs from ISO files.  In order to verify the burning is
> correct, I wrote a script working like this:
> 1. mount the DVD and ISO files onto two mount points 2. calculate every
> file's md5sum in each directory, and save and sort them in two separate
> files
> 3. compare the above two files.
> 
> The above method does work, but too time consuming because of the md5sum
> calculating.  Do you have any suggestion to improve the efficiency?

Months ago someone asked a similiar question, so maybe this helps:

http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2010/07/thrd4.html#01713

Greetings,

-- 
Camaleón


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