On Tue, 11 Sep 2012 14:38:04 -0700, Gary Kline wrote:
>
> I'm trying to checksum directories as I move them around.
> ive read the man page for sum and cksum ... or maybe skimmed
> them. no joy. anybody know of a utility to do this? I've
> got files that are decades old...
Maybe it's possible to tar the directory (without
compression of course) and obtain a checksum of
the tar archive?
% tar cf - <director> | cksum
But I also tried cksum directly with a directory
like
% cksum <directory>
and could obtain a checksum - so it _seems_ to work.
After alteration of one file within the hierarchy a
different result was printed.
Tested on OS version 8.2-STABLE/i386, one year old.
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Magdeburg, Germany
Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0
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