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# 1  
Old 02-12-2014
RedHat Compare files in directories with md5sum

And not to start. I can compare files, that's easy. The problem is that I compare files in a directory, and check if these files exist in another directory. The problem is that the file names are not the same. So I have to compare with "md5sum" or something similar. How I can do?

All this in python.

Thanks! Smilie
# 2  
Old 02-12-2014
Quote:
And not to start.
I don't understand this sentence, but ignoring that, the logic seems to be like this for me:-
  • Find all the files in your first directory. For each one, get the checksum and write a line in a work-file.
  • Find all the files in your first directory. For each one, get the checksum and check if it matches one recorded in the work-file.
I could do this in shell script, but I cannot assist with a Python.



Robin
# 3  
Old 02-13-2014
Sorry, my English is not good.

I can also use bash.

I have downloaded some files from a url.

Files are downloaded to a directory.

Code:
wget  --mirror --no-check-certificate --no-directories --no-host-directories -l1 htts://site.com/out/

rm -f index.html

I now compare the files (they may not have the same name and be identical).

There is where'm lost and do not know how.

Last edited by Scott; 02-13-2014 at 07:36 AM.. Reason: Please use code tags
# 4  
Old 02-13-2014
So, from my suggested logic above (if that's acceptable) :-
Code:
find 1st-directory -type f -exec md5sum {} \; > /tmp/1st_list
find 2nd-directory -type f -exec md5sum {} \; > /tmp/2nd_list

This will get you two files containing the file-names and the md5-checksums. You can then compare the files with diff but the output can be a bit messy. It's neater to run two commands. The following will get you files in the second list that do not match those in the first list:-
Code:
grep -vFf /tmp/1st_list /tmp/2nd_list

You can reverse this to get those in the first list that are not in the second (i.e. you might not have all the files):-
Code:
grep -vFf /tmp/2nd_list /tmp/1st_list

.
If the filenames are not important (but I rather think that they are) then you can get just the checksums like this:-
Code:
cut -f1 /tmp/1st_list > /tmp/1st_md5_only
cut -f1 /tmp/2nd_list > /tmp/2nd_md5_only

You can then show what files from your second directory are not in the first:-
Code:
grep -vFf /tmp/1st_md5_only /tmp/2nd_list

or reverse it to show what files from the first directory are missing from the second:-
Code:
grep -vFf /tmp/2nd_md5_only /tmp/1st_list

.

The grep command is 'Get Regular ExPression', so it's a way to select rows of data.
  • The -v flag means to negate the selection
  • The -F flag uses Fixed strings, else they are interpreted as expressions.
  • The -f flag uses the next item as an input file to compare to.
  • The last item is the file to scan.


I hope that this helps, but if you are still concerned, then let us know your results.

There is a good chance that you will have the same filename in the two lists with different checksums if they are downloaded at different times as fixes are released.



Robin

Last edited by rbatte1; 02-13-2014 at 09:56 AM.. Reason: Added -F flag
# 5  
Old 02-17-2014
Thank you all for your support. At the end I resolved well.
Code:
for a in `ls *.TXT`; do
   if [ -f $RECIBIDOS$a ]
   then
     rm -f $a
   fi
done

cp *.TXT $RECIBIDOS

.......

And then processes and files.

Thanks again for your help.

Last edited by Franklin52; 02-17-2014 at 08:43 AM.. Reason: Please use code tags
# 6  
Old 02-17-2014
You are just going to delete files if the name matches here. I thought that you were not concerned about matching names, but wanted to find duplicate files, hence the md5sum tests.

Oh well, so long as you are happy and you have a working solution.

Robin
# 7  
Old 02-17-2014
Honestly, it's a temporary solution. When you can be able to compare files using md5sum, then I'll change the script.

Of course I prefer to use the md5sum method.
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