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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/

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