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--- ubuntu:openssl:compute_a_checksum_of_a_file [2021/01/29 14:43] – peter
+++ ubuntu:openssl:compute_a_checksum_of_a_file [2021/01/29 15:53] (current) – [Compute an MD5 Checksum for all files in a directory] peter
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+===== Compute an MD5 Checksum for all files in a directory =====
+OpenSSL can also be combined with find to produce fingerprints for several files:
+<code bash>
+find /home/peter -type f -print0 | xargs -0 openssl md5
+or
+find /home/peter -type f| xargs -d '\n' openssl md5
+</code>
+<WRAP info>
+**NOTE:**  The xargs command takes white space characters (tabs, spaces, new lines) as delimiters.
+To accommodate for files which may contain spaces, the **-d** option is used to limit xarg delimiters to only the new line characters ('\n').
+</WRAP>