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Hi guys,

I have a service directory with a lot of files in.

I have to cksum the whole directory and compare it to a release note document.

However the problem I have is the files are listed in different lines when running cksum as they are in the release doc. Therefore cksum shows differences.

The release note cksums are in a table in a work doc. I can cut and paste to a notepad and then paste into a file using vi. It creates different white space in the fields but I get around this with diff -w.

If I have the cksums from the release notes in a file called Release_note.cksum and the output the result of cksum * to a file called directory.cksum, is there anything I can do to sort these output and save them each to another file and then diff the 2 sorted files?

Many thanks in anticipation.

Stin

OK. This works:

$ cd /some /random/directory
$ find * -type f -exec cksum {}; | sort -k 3 | sed 's/\.\///' > filename

This gives the sorted cksum output into a file.

Paste the release note cksums into a file then:

$ more release_note.cksum | sort -k 3 | sed 's/\.\///' > release_note_sorted

Compare the 2 sorted files:

$ diff -w filename release_note_sorted