Re: md5deep

[Bob Proulx]

Mathieu Roy wrote:
> 
> Someone at United States Air Force Office of Special Investigations
> made a md5sum-like program, with the following additional features: 

Thanks for posting information about that program.

>         Recursive operation - md5deep is able to recursive examine an
>         entire directory tree. That is, compute the MD5 for every file
>         in a directory andf for every file in every subdirectory.  

It is better to use find.  This one program works with all of the
utilities.

  find . -print0 | xargs -r0 md5sum

>         Time estimation - md5deep can produce a time estimate when
>         it's processing very large files.  
> 
>         Comparison mode - md5deep can accept a list of known hashes
>         and compare them to a set of input files. The program will
>         only display those input files that match the list of known
>         hashes.  

Similar to the md5sum -c option?

Bob