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None of the methods described in the article is correct. md5sum does not compare files, it compares checksums. One mostly-correct solution is the 'd' (diff) opt
by hairymonkeybone 10y ago
None of the methods described in the article is correct. md5sum does not compare files, it compares checksums. One mostly-correct solution is the 'd' (diff) option to GNU tar.
- pjc50 10y ago> md5sum does not compare files, it compares checksums. .. which is, almost all of the time, good enough and requires much less bandwidth between the copies. These days it might be better to pick SHA256.