[CentOS] Comparing directories recursively

Fri Oct 27 23:54:31 UTC 2017
Frank Cox <theatre at sasktel.net>

On Sat, 28 Oct 2017 00:47:32 +0200
Leon Fauster wrote:

> source:
> 
> find . -type f -exec md5sum \{\} \; > checksum.list
> 
> destination:
> 
> md5sum -c checksum.list

Wouldn't diff be faster because it doesn't have to read to the end of every file and it isn't really calculating anything?  Or am I looking at this in the wrong way.

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