I'm looking for a command line tool for windows that will go over a directory tree (recursively) and output a list of all the files in there, and a checksum for each file (can be CRC, MD5, whatever).
Esentially, what I want is to compare 2 big directory trees in 2 machines. I'm planning to take the outputs of running this tool in both, and diffing them to make sure they're identical.
I appreciate any ideas.
hashutils and HashCheck are the best packages I've found on Windows so far. Both tools are open source from the same author, but HashCheck is a shell extension and hashutils is a set of CLI tools. In my testing, they're significantly faster than the ported unxutils versions. (Despite the expectation that they'd be I/O bound.)
I also think that these tools are better than the often-mentioned HashTab, and if I could get to the Ars OpenForum, I'd link a post I wrote up with my justification.
Easy in the *nix world. Just grab the tools and then make a pipeline of find, sort, and md5sum.
find . -type f -print0 | sort -z | xargs -0 md5sum
Total Commander (File -> Calculate checksums). But beware! If all filenames belong to your locale codepage, encoding will be this codepage, otherwise UTF8.
Disclaimer: I am the author of this library.
An alternative is pyFileFixity, a self-contained Python 2 library, containing the tool "rfigc.py". It works on Windows (since my machine runs Windows 7 x64) but it should work on all platforms, and the databases generated on one OS can be used on other OSes (because paths are relative and always uniformized in UNIX style).
