chksum

For people who wants to make checksum of whole directory but doesn't like:

find /path -type f -exec md5sum \{\} + | sort -k1 | md5sum

Building

Simply run cargo build.

cargo build [--release]

You can use make command too.

make [DEBUG=1]

Installation

Simply install using make install target.

make install PREFIX='/usr'

Note: This may require root privileges.

Running

Usage:

chksum [options] [--] <path>...

Like:

$ chksum LICENSE
256cc158ea3c7dd3efcee650b022b5a5 LICENSE
$ md5sum LICENSE
256cc158ea3c7dd3efcee650b022b5a5  LICENSE
$ chksum --hash SHA1 docs/ extra/
d6143fde775af08fc43329295a620408fbcdd72b docs/
3e1c845b152bf99431b4c709c95c1aa20d4735b6 extra/
$ find docs/ -type f -exec cat \{\} + | sha1sum
d6143fde775af08fc43329295a620408fbcdd72b  -

Hash algorithms

Currently there are implemented two hash algorithms: * MD5 - RFC 1321: The MD5 Message-Digest Algorithm * SHA-1 - RFC 3174: US Secure Hash Algorithm 1 (SHA1)