cksum problems

Xris718 · 01-10-2004, 01:31 PM

I have question. I need to use cksum on all files inside different direcotries. Basically i need it to do it recursively. I checked out cksum man pages and theres no options like for examples: cksum -r

At least my cksum doesnt support any options besides 'cksum --help' and 'cksum --version'

Basically i need cksum to give me checksum files and go down through directories like 'ls -R' would. Any thoughts on this matter would be appreciated, thank you

david_ross · 01-10-2004, 01:36 PM

You could use find:
find /path/to/base/dir -type f -exec cksum {} \;

Xris718 · 01-10-2004, 10:33 PM

that command doesnt really work for some reason. I wonder if maybe theres another way? I dont really need to search or find specific file i just need to get all file checksums in different directories. Thanks again

david_ross · 01-11-2004, 07:48 AM

It should work - what error do you get?

Xris718 · 01-11-2004, 12:48 PM

wait no my fault it does work thanks alot david_ross. Quick question though what does this mean?

-type f and {} \;

in this command

find . -type f exec cksum {} \;

david_ross · 01-11-2004, 01:43 PM

The answers can be found in the man page:
man find

Basically it will only look for files of type f (these are ordinary files, not symlinks or directories). The {} is used in an exec statement and will be replaced, in turn, by the name of each file matched by the find comamnd.

Xris718 · 01-11-2004, 06:31 PM

thanks alot david i appreciate the help