Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2012 20:00:06 -0500 From: Noel <noeldude@gmail.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: cksum entire dir?? Message-ID: <504FDE96.50209@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20120912024854.1a79d0b3.freebsd@edvax.de> References: <20120911213804.GA9817@ethic.thought.org> <20120912011443.5df17cf2.freebsd@edvax.de> <20120912002408.GA10496@ethic.thought.org> <20120912024854.1a79d0b3.freebsd@edvax.de>
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On 9/11/2012 7:48 PM, Polytropon wrote: > > I think I tried something like your second example last night. > I think I did > > % cksum foodir/* > That lets the shell expand * to the content of foodir, making > a final command line like "cksum foodir/file1 foodir/file2" > and so on. If you omit the /* part, the directory will be > checksummed entirely. If you then remove a file or change > it, a different checksum will be printed. At least that is > my interpretation of what I've tested. I think that command checksums the *directory block*, not the same as a combined checksum of all the files, and probably not useful for verifying if all files have been copied/moved correctly to a different directory. > The Midnight Commander has a function to compare directories > which will also identify _which_ files have changed (unlike Yes, much more promising. -- Noel Jones
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