right...that's what I get for not trying it out for rea.... What I actually do is more like this: (cd src/path; find . -type f -exec md5sum {} \; ) > src.md5sum (cd dest/path; find . -type f -exec md5sum {} \; ) > dest.md5sum diff src.md5sum dest.md5sum But I also usually do it the first (wrong) way first, before remembering this detail! Cheers, Bill Christopher Paulin wrote: >That solution is perfect after these changes: > >chris@p450:~> cut -f 1 -d ' ' src.md5sum > src.md5sum.cut >chris@p450:~> cut -f 1 -d ' ' dest.md5sum > dest.md5sum.cut > >And my actual result of the difference between the CD-ROM files and >those copied to the hard drive was: > >chris@p450:~> diff src.md5sum.cut dest.md5sum.cut >chris@p450:~> > >No differences! I.e., the files copied byte for byte. > >The reason for the cut was: > >chris@p450:~> cat src.md5sum | more >94dc6e3bd83b3cc2e1d222f70498d82d /media/cdrecorder/Autorun.ICO >53206fb912c7c1033a172c811cea2260 /media/cdrecorder/Autorun.INF >035ea2a9ed956511eb1ef3d0bc70a2fe /media/cdrecorder/IDE/Readme.txt >e9f2df528fd67e5e14344e75b5e7c1df /media/cdrecorder/IDE/SiS96x/DATA.TAG >8238f44e8039dc9ad1b888ff94b036d0 /media/cdrecorder/IDE/SiS96x/DATA1.CAB >425bb489af8c2b061e773a1abf415163 >/media/cdrecorder/IDE/SiS96x/DMASETUP/ATA133AP.EXE >bddd69c1736b33ae898df79d16109eff >/media/cdrecorder/IDE/SiS96x/DMASETUP/DMA98.EXE >750c075251274bb44996532c77244dbb >/media/cdrecorder/IDE/SiS96x/DMASETUP/HDINFO.EXE >b36455d752aaa0a41e3d31f8a433cd1e >/media/cdrecorder/IDE/SiS96x/DMASETUP/INFINSTALL.EXE >98de260969d153afc66b31a48d0a2338 >/media/cdrecorder/IDE/SiS96x/DMASETUP/SISVSD.VXD >7286a38effa855e44299ef092877ea2c >/media/cdrecorder/IDE/SiS96x/IDEUTIL/SISIDE.EXE >a7093a506c924581a5490961e18b04fd >/media/cdrecorder/IDE/SiS96x/IDEUTIL/SISVSD.VXD >.........................................Continued........................................ > >compared with: > >chris@p450:~> cat dest.md5sum | more >94dc6e3bd83b3cc2e1d222f70498d82d /mnt/windows_xp/Documents and >Settings/temp_cd_copy/Autorun.ICO >53206fb912c7c1033a172c811cea2260 /mnt/windows_xp/Documents and >Settings/temp_cd_copy/Autorun.INF >035ea2a9ed956511eb1ef3d0bc70a2fe /mnt/windows_xp/Documents and >Settings/temp_cd_copy/ide/Readme.txt >e9f2df528fd67e5e14344e75b5e7c1df /mnt/windows_xp/Documents and >Settings/temp_cd_copy/ide/SiS96x/data.tag >8238f44e8039dc9ad1b888ff94b036d0 /mnt/windows_xp/Documents and >Settings/temp_cd_copy/ide/SiS96x/data1.cab >425bb489af8c2b061e773a1abf415163 /mnt/windows_xp/Documents and >Settings/temp_cd_copy/ide/SiS96x/dmasetup/ata133ap.exe >bddd69c1736b33ae898df79d16109eff /mnt/windows_xp/Documents and >Settings/temp_cd_copy/ide/SiS96x/dmasetup/dma98.exe >750c075251274bb44996532c77244dbb /mnt/windows_xp/Documents and >Settings/temp_cd_copy/ide/SiS96x/dmasetup/hdinfo.exe >b36455d752aaa0a41e3d31f8a433cd1e /mnt/windows_xp/Documents and >Settings/temp_cd_copy/ide/SiS96x/dmasetup/INFINSTALL.EXE >98de260969d153afc66b31a48d0a2338 /mnt/windows_xp/Documents and >Settings/temp_cd_copy/ide/SiS96x/dmasetup/sisvsd.vxd >7286a38effa855e44299ef092877ea2c /mnt/windows_xp/Documents and >Settings/temp_cd_copy/ide/SiS96x/ideutil/siside.exe >a7093a506c924581a5490961e18b04fd /mnt/windows_xp/Documents and >Settings/temp_cd_copy/ide/SiS96x/ideutil/sisvsd.vxd >.........................................Continued........................................ > >Hence, the source and destination directories are different, and so >there is a difference. Also copying to a Windows partition changes the >case (lower- and upper-case) of some files. > >The cut utility gets the first column, which is the md5 sum, i.e, a >fingerprint of the bytes in the file. > >chris@p450:~> cat src.md5sum.cut | more >94dc6e3bd83b3cc2e1d222f70498d82d >53206fb912c7c1033a172c811cea2260 >035ea2a9ed956511eb1ef3d0bc70a2fe >e9f2df528fd67e5e14344e75b5e7c1df >8238f44e8039dc9ad1b888ff94b036d0 >425bb489af8c2b061e773a1abf415163 >bddd69c1736b33ae898df79d16109eff >750c075251274bb44996532c77244dbb >b36455d752aaa0a41e3d31f8a433cd1e >98de260969d153afc66b31a48d0a2338 >7286a38effa855e44299ef092877ea2c >a7093a506c924581a5490961e18b04fd >.........................................Continued........................................ > >Christopher Paulin > >Bill wrote: > > > >>Something I like to do in these cases is: >> >>find src/path -type f -exec md5sum {} \; > src.md5sum >>find dest/path -type f -exec md5sum {} \; > dest.md5sum >>diff src.md5sum dest.md5sum >> >>This way, especially when a particular OS which is prone to setting a >>destination file name and size before all the actual data is copied, I >>will know right away which files were in fact successfully copied... >> >>Christopher Paulin wrote: >> >> >> >> >> >>>I copied a large number of files (including directories) and wanted to >>>see if all the files were copied. >>> >>>chris@p450:~> find /media/cdrecorder/ | wc -l >>> 2643 >>>chris@p450:~> find /mnt/windows_xp/Documents\ and\ >>>Settings/temp_cd_copy/ | wc -l >>> 2643 >>>chris@p450:~> >>> >>>2643 files are in each directory tree. >>> >>>I can exclude, using the not (!) symbol, directories (-type d) to list >>>the number of files (non-directories) in the directory tree: >>> >>>chris@p450:~> find /media/cdrecorder/ ! -type d | wc -l >>> 2173 >>>chris@p450:~> find /mnt/windows_xp/Documents\ and\ >>>Settings/temp_cd_copy/ ! -type d | wc -l >>> 2173 >>>chris@p450:~> >>> >>>I can exclude, using the not (!) symbol, files (-type f) to list the >>>number of directories in the directory tree: >>> >>>chris@p450:~> find /media/cdrecorder/ \! -type f | wc -l >>> 470 >>>chris@p450:~> find /mnt/windows_xp/Documents\ and\ >>>Settings/temp_cd_copy/ ! -type f | wc -l >>> 470 >>>chris@p450:~> >>> >>>2173 files >>>+470 directories >>>------ >>>2643 files and directories >>> >>>Christopher Paulin >>> >>> >>>_______________________________________________ >>>CCOSS mailing list >>>ccoss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx >>>CCOSS mailing list page: //www.freelists.org/cgi-bin/list?list_id=3594 >>>CCOSS Web page: http://www.ccoss.org >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>_______________________________________________ >>CCOSS mailing list >>ccoss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx >>CCOSS mailing list page: //www.freelists.org/cgi-bin/list?list_id=3594 >>CCOSS Web page: http://www.ccoss.org >> >> >> >> >> > > >_______________________________________________ >CCOSS mailing list >ccoss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx >CCOSS mailing list page: //www.freelists.org/cgi-bin/list?list_id=3594 >CCOSS Web page: http://www.ccoss.org > > > _______________________________________________ CCOSS mailing list ccoss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx CCOSS mailing list page: //www.freelists.org/cgi-bin/list?list_id=3594 CCOSS Web page: http://www.ccoss.org