md5 checksums to recursively compare directories

# md5 checksums to recursively compare directories

# change to the directory so your sums file will not include the file name, in case it is different on the other machine
cd dirwithfiles
# build the checksums file
find . -type f -exec md5sum {} \; > ~/checksums.txt

#then transfer it to other machine:
scp ~/checksums.txt user@somewhereelse:

# then on other machine:
cd dirwithfiles
md5sum --quiet -c ~/checksums.txt > ~/badfiles.txt