Hi.
Some people have already answered the find method, but I use a slight different one: find / -type f -print0 | xargs -0 md5sum | tee /tmp/md This way you'll end up running fewer processes and still cope with odd characteres in file names (that you won't if just using for i in `find`). Regards, Luciano Rocha On Tue, Jun 25, 2002 at 09:55:54AM -0700, Mark G. Spencer wrote: > 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
