Feb 072010
How to perform checksum on a folder?
Answer:
Previous article told you how perform checksum on a file. How about to perform checksum on a folder?
A simple solution is to install md5deep
# sudo apt-get install md5deep
To perform checksum on a particular folder (input),
# md5deep -l -r input
26ab0db90d72e28ad0ba1e22ee510510 input/2.txt
6d7fce9fee471194aa8b5b6e47267f03 input/3.txt
b026324c6904b2a9cb4b88d6d61c81d1 input/1.txt
That's so easy.
Reference: http://md5deep.sourceforge.net/