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# 1  
Old 08-04-2008
recursive md5sum check
so I have within my script a little md5sum check...

Code:
find . ! -type d -print0 | xargs -0 md5sum


And I want it to compare the generated values against a file so I'm trying...

Code:
find . ! -type d -print0 | xargs -0 md5sum -c files.md5

I generated this file by redirecting the output of the first version to 'files.md5' but the second version gives me this error...

Code:
usage: md5sum [-bv] [-c [file]] | [file...]
Generates or checks MD5 Message Digests
    -c  check message digests (default is generate)
    -v  verbose, print file names when checking
    -b  read files in binary mode
The input for -c should be the list of message digests and file names
that is printed on stdout by this program when it generates digests.

I wonder if I should be setting an array to equal the values and checking manually with a 'for x in @array' please let me know what you think.
# 2  
Old 08-04-2008
You only need to provide the original file as the input to --check (-c), it obtains the fiilenames to check from that file.

i.e. just:

Code:
md5sum -c files.md5

# 3  
Old 08-05-2008
K, that makes sense. Thank you
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