On Thu, 21 May 2020, David Christensen wrote:
On 2020-05-21 08:52, davidson wrote:On Thu, 14 May 2020, Albretch Mueller wrote:The thing is that I have to call, say sha256sum, on millions of files Probably debian admin people dealing with packaging have to deal with the same kinds of issues.For checksums, mtree(8) from package mtree-netbsd might be worth a look.Been there, done that; I do not recommend it: https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2020/01/msg00488.html
The thread you refer to reports problems with the mtree-à-la-FreeBSD ("fmtree(8)" [1]) in debian package freebsd-buildutils. mtree-netbsd is a different debian package, providing mtree-à-la-NetBSD ("mtree(8)" [2]). It does not seem to suffer from the deficiency you encountered with fmtree. 1. https://manpages.debian.org/buster/freebsd-buildutils/fmtree.8.en.html 2. https://manpages.debian.org/buster/mtree-netbsd/mtree.8.en.html -- The day will come | Last words, August Spies (1855--1887). When our silence will be | Hanged, by the U.S. state of Illinois, More powerful than | alongside fellow journalists The voices you strangle today | Adolf Fischer and Albert Parsons.