On Fri, Sep 6, 2024 at 2:42 PM Frank Steinmetzger <war...@gmx.de> wrote: > > Am Fri, Sep 06, 2024 at 01:21:20PM +0100 schrieb Michael: > > > > > find path-to-directory/ -type f | xargs md5sum > digest.log > > > > > > > > then to compare with a backup of the same directory you could run: > > > > > > > > md5sum -c digest.log | grep FAILED > > I had a quick look at the manpage: with md5sum --quiet you can omit the grep > part. > > > > > Someone more knowledgeable should be able to knock out some clever python > > > > script to do the same at speed. > > And that is exactly what I have written for myself over the last 11 years. I > call it dh (short for dirhash). As I described in the previous mail, I use > it to create one hash files per directory. But it also supports one hash > file per data file and – a rather new feature – one hash file at the root of > a tree. Have a look here: https://github.com/felf/dh > Clone the repo or simply download the one file and put it into your path. >
Thanks for sharing this Frank. Much appreciated. Cheers, Mark
