MD5sum of filename containing white spaces

Question

I'm trying to get the md5sum of every file of a directory, in this format :

hashcode  dir/path/to/file

I'm using :

md5sum $(find /path/to/dir -type f | sort)

but this doesn't work if the file as a white space in its name.

And adding apostrophes: md5sum "$(find /path/to/dir -type f | sort)" doesn't seems to solve the problem (it only print the path, not the md5 anymore).

Answer 1

If the folder has only one layer deep then simply let the shell expand file names like this

md5sum *

If there are more layers then you can enable globstar and the output will still be sorted as expected

shopt -s globstar
md5sum ** 2>/dev/null

Alternatively use find directly

find -type f -print0 | sort -z | xargs -0 md5sum