bug#10355: Add an option to {md5,sha*} to ignore directories (original) (raw)

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From: Bob Proulx
Subject: bug#10355: Add an option to {md5,sha*} to ignore directories
Date: Fri, 23 Dec 2011 10:17:22 -0700
User-agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15)

severity 10355 wishlist tags 10355 + notabug wontfix moreinfo thanks

Erik Auerswald wrote:

Gilles Espinasse wrote: >I was using a way to check md5sum on a lot of file using > for myfile in cat <span class="katex"><span class="katex-mathml"><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML"><semantics><mrow><mrow><mi>A</mi><mi>L</mi><mi>L</mi><mi>F</mi><mi>I</mi><mi>L</mi><mi>E</mi><mi>S</mi></mrow><mi mathvariant="normal">‘</mi><mo separator="true">;</mo><mi>d</mi><mi>o</mi><mi>i</mi><mi>f</mi><mo stretchy="false">[</mo><mo>−</mo><mi>f</mi><mi mathvariant="normal">/</mi></mrow><annotation encoding="application/x-tex">{ALLFILES}; do if [ -f /ALLFILES‘;doif[−f/{myfile} ]; then md5sum >/$myfile>> $ALLFILES}.md5; fi; done ... You could use "find $DIR -type f" to list regular files only.

Yes. Exactly. The capability you ask for is already present.

Please try this:

find . -type f -exec md5sum {} +

Replace '.' above with a directory if you wish it to find files in a different directory.

Bob