md5sum a directory

Generate:

find (your-dir) -type f -print0 | xargs -0 md5sum >> (output-md5sume-file)

Verify:

md5sum -c (output-md5sum-file)

my example:

robert@robert-desktop ~/work/nbd-work/ttt $ ls

first second test

robert@robert-desktop ~/work/nbd-work/ttt $ find -type f -print0 | xargs -0 md5sum >> ~/Test/mydir.md5

robert@robert-desktop ~/work/nbd-work/ttt $ cat ~/Test/mydir.md5

d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e ./second

d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e ./first

7423d8fc12da81d779d0485b3d3fb67d ./test

robert@robert-desktop ~/work/nbd-work/ttt $ md5sum -c ~/Test/mydir.md5

./second: OK

./first: OK

./test: OK

robert@robert-desktop ~/work/nbd-work/ttt $ echo $?

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