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chinabenjamin66

11-16-2012 04:14 AM

How to find all files in folder and calculate md5 and redirect to a file in one CLI

Hello friends,

Can anyone teach me how to find all files in a folder and calculate md5 hashes and redirect to a file in one command line?

Any idea will be appreciated.

druuna

11-16-2012 04:20 AM

Have a look at this:

Code:

find /path/to/files -type f -exec md5sum {} >> /path/to/outfile \;

This recursively looks for files (-type f) in /pat/to/files, creates the md5sums and stores the results in /path/to/outfile.

evo2	11-16-2012 04:20 AM

Hi,

how about

Code:

md5sum /path/to/a/folder/* > md5sums.txt

Evo2.

colucix

11-16-2012 04:21 AM

Do you mean you want to get the checksum of ALL the files inside a directory? Or do you have to specify some criteria to select some specific files? In the first case:

Code:

find /path/to/dir -maxdepth 1 -type f -exec md5sum {} \+ > all.md5

should do the trick.

Edit: too late! ;) evo2's solution is more straightforward, anyway.

evo2	11-16-2012 04:36 AM

Ohh, for completeness, the shell glob version for all files in subdirectories (or folders in OP speak)

Code:

md5sum /path/to/a/folder/**/*(^/) > md5sums.txt

Assuming of course the OP uses zsh. No need for find if you use a decent shell ;-)

Evo2.

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