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--- ubuntu:openssl:compute_a_checksum_of_a_file [2021/01/29 15:51] – [Compute an MD5 Checksum for all files in a directory] 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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 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>