[Discuss] Multiple HDD setup in Linux

Steven Kurylo sk at infinitepigeons.org
Sat May 10 09:13:49 PDT 2008


>  >  find . -type f >| files.list
>  >  cat files.list |xargs md5sum >| md5sum.out

>  Just today I found myself needing something like this.  Unfortunately
>  I ran into problems due to some of the file and directory names
>  containing spaces and other non alphanumeric characters which confused
>  md5sum.

I'll save you some work.  And I'll handle quotes in the file names,
which your sed version won't.

find . -type f -print0 | xargs --null md5sum > md5sum.out

-- 
Steven Kurylo


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