How to run MD5 check for multiple fastq files in different subdirectories?

Small modification,

find . -type f -exec md5sum-lite {} \; >> output.txt

If you use > the output will almost certainly contain a single record.

Dallas Hall Follow

Small modification,

find . -type f -exec md5sum-lite {} \; >> output.txt

If you use > the output will almost certainly contain a single record.

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John Ilsley Follow

Thank you for the prompt reply. Is there any other code that you know of for looping the md5 command over different subfolders?More

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Gregory A. Beamer Follow

Yes of course ... there are loads of ways to do this. A bash script is good (separate question IMO). However, the > and >> will still be central. In terms of elegance, your one liner looks cool. BTW >> is very likely the solution because of the find approach. One liners are cool BTW.More

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Edward Rosenberg Follow

Yeah. totally agreed.More

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Jeph Moorloy Follow

Your welcome. Your second question (alternative code) is worth asking because of the variety of ways it can answered, e.g. a bash for loop, Python subprocessing, Perl one liner are the approaches I can think of.More

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