[CentOS] Good md5sum snapshot tool?

Thu Jun 4 14:04:39 UTC 2009
Didi <ribalba at gmail.com>

On Wed, Jun 3, 2009 at 10:18 PM, Sean Carolan <scarolan at gmail.com> wrote:
> I have a server that is undergoing some patching soon and would like
> to make note of any files that have changed after the patching is
> complete.  Can you recommend a tool that uses md5sum snapshots to do a
> quick before and after test, showing anything that's changed on a
> particular file system?

Simple but effective:
find . -type f -exec md5sum {} \; | sort > /tmp/previous

Do the same after with a different file name and use diff

Cheers Didi

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