MD5VS - Verify MD5SUMs Of All Files In A Directory Recursively

[alex_free]

This was something I put together as a small side project. Some modern file systems checksum the files in them to verify their integrity, I wanted something similar for my my main server, the Mac mini G4. So here’s what I did:

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MD5VS makes it easy to verify the integrety of all files recursively in a specfied directory. MD5VS is very portable, it can use the BSD MD5 which comes with Mac OS X by default or the GNU MD5SUM which is on Linux and other systems, which is detected automatically.

Example:

Use the command:

./md5vs -c "/path/to/some/directoy"

This will create a file "/path/to/some/directory/md5sum.txt" which contains the md5sums of all files within "/path/to/some/directory" recursively.

Use the command:

./md5vs -v "/path/to/some/directory"

This will verify that the md5sums in all of the files within "/path/to/some/directory" recursively match what was previously recorded in the file "/path/to/some/directory/md5sum.txt" with the previous command: ./md5vs -c "/path/to/some/directory"

MD5VS is released into the public domain, see the file 'unlicense.txt'.

This was really just a fun thing to do in bash, however I could see it being useful to more then just me so I figured I would post it here. Tested on Mac OS X 10.4 and Fedora 33.

 

[Jubadub]

Does it take resource/data/etc. forks into account for the sum, or just the data fork? Or are sums listed for each fork separately?