Re: md5deep

[Mathieu Roy]

address@hidden (Bob Proulx) a tapoté :

> 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

Right. 
But -r is easier.


[ About find (off-topic, ok), I submitted a bug report a few months ago
without getting any answer. The -newer option does not work as
expected with computers > 700 Bogomips ; at least on 3 different ones ]

 
> >         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?

Is this what "check message digests (default is generate)" means? With
the French translation, it was not obvious to me ; but indeed, I'm not
familiar with md5sum.




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Mathieu Roy
 
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