Hi,

This should do the trick:

for file in `find . -type f`
do
        md5sum $file
done > md5sums.txt

Regards,

Steve.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mark G. Spencer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Wednesday, 26 June 2002 2:56 AM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: MD5'ing a directory tree in Linux?
> 
> 
> Is it possible to MD5 all the items in a directory tree using 
> Linux?  I
> am on a Redhat 7.3 workstation.  I have read the man and info file for
> MD5SUM and also tried to run it against a directory without 
> success.  I
> get the error "Is a directory" which is very self explanatory.
> 
> So .. Is there another MD5 utility with more flexibility?  I basically
> need to MD5 every file individually in a large directory tree with the
> output redirected to a text file showing the path, filename, 
> and hash of
> every file in that directory tree.
> 
> Thanks for the assistance,
> 
> Mark
> 

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