How to create a md5-file for every folder in a drive recursivley?

Question

I'm searching for a script which creates a md5 chechsum file for every single folder inside drive recursivley?

I do have a copy of md5deep on my machine but I'm not that good in scripting bash.

Answer 1

To get a .md5 file for any files under a specific directory, you can use the following script:

#!/bin/bash
if [ $# -ne 1 ] ; then
        echo "Usage $0 [directory]" 
        exit 1
fi
find $1 -type f  -print0 | while IFS= read -r -d $'\0' file; do
    (
    cd "$(dirname "$file")"
    filename="$(basename "$file")"
    md5sum "$filename" > "$filename".md5
    )
done

In zsh, the same for all files under the current directory can be done with the one-line command (includes files starting with a dot):

for i in **/*(/D) ; do ( cd $i ; for j in *(.D) ; do md5sum $j > $j.md5 ; done ) ; done