Re^5: Handling Hash Comparison

So, I'm still not clear...what do you want it to do? In the OP you only said you wanted to compare MD5 sums of corresponding files. I don't see how copying fits into it.

Comment on Re^5: Handling Hash Comparison

Replies are listed 'Best First'.
Re^6: Handling Hash Comparison by omega_monk (Scribe) on Jul 23, 2005 at 04:31 UTC
I am trying to synchronize the files recursively in the 2 dirs, so that everything in the source is checked in the destination, and updated if necessary, using md5's to check the files.	[reply]
Re^7: Handling Hash Comparison by Errto (Vicar) on Jul 23, 2005 at 04:37 UTC
Understood. In that case, once you follow my above suggestion for putting relative paths into the hash keys, then your cp statement simply becomes this: `"cp '$sdir/$key' '$fdir/$key'"` [download]	[reply] [d/l]