MD5 checksum

[Vidiot]

>I plan to use md5sum to get the digest of each file in some folders, like
>/etc /sbin .. and keep this as cron job, so that I can check the integrity
>of system.
>But it seems that md5sum can't calculate a sub folder, and always inform
>that something is a folder bla bla..
>So, what should I do? Thanks!

Simple answer: md5sum/Subfolder/*

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