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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Making a script to copy files not seen before (using md5sum) Post 302848621 by nbsparks on Thursday 29th of August 2013 03:57:54 PM
Old 08-29-2013
[Solved] Making a script to copy files not seen before (using md5sum)
Hello,

I would like to make a script that searches through a SRC folder and copies only files it's never seen before to a DEST folder.

SRC = /user/.phonesync/photos-backup
DST = /usr/.phonesync/photos-new

So basically, I'd start with a:

Code:
md5sum /user/.phonesync/photos-backup/* > /user/.phonesync/photos-backup.md5

Then, I'd like to run some sort of "cp" or "rsync" from SRC to DEST after comparing the current contents of /photos-backup/ to the .md5 list. If a file is not in the MD5 list, then copy it to /photos-new/ and then add it to the photos-backup.md5. The md5 list will always get appended to and grow and grow, but I'll deal with that at some point by deleting it and generating a new md5 list.
Last edited by nbsparks; 08-29-2013 at 05:09 PM..
 

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