md5sum for directories?

Brian McKee brian.mckee at gmail.com
Tue Aug 15 21:33:49 UTC 2006


On 15/08/06, pkaplan1 at comcast.net <pkaplan1 at comcast.net> wrote:
> Is there something similar to md5sum for verifying that two copies of a directory are equivalent?
> TIA
> Paul

You could
rsync -avP --dry-run  one_dir two_dir
or tarball them both and checksum the tar balls

I'm an rsync fan myself :-)




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