[CentOS] Comparing directories recursively

Sat Oct 28 16:31:24 UTC 2017
H <agents at meddatainc.com>

On October 27, 2017 6:47:32 PM EDT, Leon Fauster <leonfauster at googlemail.com> wrote:
>
>> Am 27.10.2017 um 23:27 schrieb H <agents at meddatainc.com>:
>> 
>> What is the best tool to compare file hashes in two different
>drives/directories such as after copying a large number of files from
>one drive to another? I used cp -au to copy directories, not rsync,
>since it is between local disks.
>> 
>> I found a mention of hashdeep on the 'net which means first running
>it against the first directory generating a file with checksums and
>then running it a second time against the second directory using this
>checksum file. Hashdeep, however, is not in the CentOS repository and,
>according to the 'net, is possibly no longer maintained.\
>> 
>> I also found md5deep which seems similar.
>> 
>> Are there other tools for this automatic compare where I am really
>looking for a list of files that exist in only one place or where
>checksums do not match?
>
>source:
>
>find . -type f -exec md5sum \{\} \; > checksum.list
>
>destination:
>
>md5sum -c checksum.list
>
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Thank you, saving this for the future.