md5sum suggestion

[Brian J Langenberger]

It would be very helpful to have a "recursive" option in md5sum (or any
other *sum utility, for that matter).  That way, an entire directory tree
could be summed into a file in order to do integrity checking (with
the "check" flag) at later dates.  For example:

% md5sum -r /home/foo > /home/bar/check.md5

md5sums everything in the /home/foo path so that:

% md5sum -c /home/bar/check.md5

can validate the entire /home/foo tree.  I have attached a rough, but
working, patch to md5sum.c to facilitate this option.  I hope you find
this suggestion helpful!

-Brian

md5sum.patch
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