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  • Nice, but can't get it to work, it says .../foo: Is a directory, what gives? Commented Oct 2, 2014 at 1:21
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    On its own md5deep doesn't solve the OP's problem as it doesn't print a consolidated md5sum, it just prints the md5sum for each file in the directory. That said, you can md5sum the output of md5deep - not quite what the OP wanted, but is close! e.g. for the current directory: md5deep -r -l -j0 . | md5sum (where -r is recursive, -l means "use relative paths" so that the absolute path of the files doesn't interfere when trying to compare the content of two directories, and -j0 means use 1 thread to prevent non-determinism due to individual md5sums being returned in different orders). Commented Oct 14, 2015 at 12:34
  • How to ignore some files/directories in the path? Commented Oct 21, 2016 at 13:17
  • I liked the most upvoted answer, but this was more straightforward imo. Thank you! Commented Feb 14, 2020 at 22:43