[NTLUG:Discuss] File system modification tracker

[Leroy Tennison]

On 02/13/2013 12:38 PM, rp8034l wrote:
> On 02/13/13 00:07, Leroy Tennison wrote:
>> Anyone know of a good program to do this? The reason I ask is I'm
>> trying to discover where KDE4 stores it's configuration and what the
>> entries in plasma-desktop-appletsrc mean.
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> Why not try:
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>   find . -type f -print0 | sort -z | xargs -0 md5sum
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> 'find' identifies all files is a directory tree.
> (The above example starts in the current directory)
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> 'md5sum' generates a MD5 checksum for each file.
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> 'sort' make the output more easily processed with 'diff'.
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> RichardP
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Congratulations on a good, simple solution.  Thanks.