On Mon, Nov 24, 2008 at 11:09 AM, Bartolomeo Nicolotti wrote: > > Hi, > > but the command > > find . -type f | xargs md5sum > > has problems with blanks in the name of the files:
This isn't a general help list for UNIX tools; they work the same on Cygwin as on UNIX. I recommend you search for tutorials online; http://www.softpanorama.org/Tools/Find/find_mini_tutorial.shtml looks like it might be helpful for find. The solution to your problem is the -print0 option to find, coupled with the -0 option to xargs. find . -type f -print0 | xargs -0 md5sum -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/