Monthly Archives: July 2008

recursive md5 hashing with Linux

The problem: You need a md5sum of a directory. Unfortunately, md5sum just accepts files as input. The solution: Let’s use find! Okay. Here we go: find DIRECTORY -type f -exec md5sum ‘{}’ \; | md5sum – | awk ‘{print $1}’ … Continue reading

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