md5sum only new files?

Question

I have a directory containing files and an md5sum.txt file. I add a file new files to the directory. I would like add md5sum sums for all files that are not in md5sum.txt.

Is there a simple way to do it?

Answer 1

You can try this little number:

#We want the seperator to be newlines, not spaces
IFS="$(echo -e "\n\r")"
for EACHFILE in `ls -1`
do
    # If grep can't find the filename in that text file
    if ! egrep -q  " $EACHFILE$" md5sum.txt; then
    md5sum $EACHFILE
    fi
done

This assumes that the text file is like this:

964e6b94e921b5f0879b41956b787050 test.file

Which is standard output