Thanks, This works great for my purpose. - Jeroen On Thursday 22 July 2004 06:27 pm, Serge de Souza wrote: > J.L. Coenders wrote: > > Hi, > > Is there some command for comparing entire directories? Like a recursive > > md5sum, which for instance checks if all files and directories (including > > hidden, etc.) are present in the copied location. > > > > Thanks, > > - Jeroen > > diff -r dir1 dir2