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Recursively generate MD5 checksums

Posted 10-26-2011 at 09:53 AM by Garda
Tags find, md5, md5sum, xargs
I wanted to generate MD5 checksums of a whole bunch of files in a directory. It turns out that this is not as straightforward as it should be. IMO it should be completed with: md5sum -br *

Unfortunately it was not as straightforward. I found this blog entry after searching for a while and adapted this to what I needed. To generate checksums, I used the following:

Code:
find . -type f -print0 | xargs -0 md5sum -b
(Note: for the above to work, "cd"...
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Add splash image to GRUB

Posted 12-15-2008 at 02:59 AM by Garda
I wanted to add something to the default GRUB screen that greets you as you start Linux more nicely than monochrome text.
I did this using the splashscreen feature of GRUB version 1, the boot loader that I had installed.
I used Krita for some of the image manipulation, but GIMP is also a good app. On Debian, you can get GIMP as root with

Code:
apt-get install gimp
Splash images in GRUB have to be in .xpm or "X PixMap" format and they have to be 640x480...
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