By default the md5 command includes the full path in the output and doesn't seem to have an option to output the basename only. Although I can get around this using a script, I wondered if there is a simple way to output without the full path using a single command. It doesn't have to be md5 as my aim is just to verify there is no corruption in files stored on different machines in my own network. As I am doing a simple diff on list of files with different paths, I just need to avoid the path muddying the waters.
At the moment I am using
find -s directoryToBeChecked -type f -exec md5 {} \; > checksumsForComparison.txt
to create pairs of files and would like to manually check them using a graphical diff program like FileMerge.
I'm using MacOS 10.14 so the shell is sh 3.2
Try to open a shell with a command argument echoing the basename and md5 (with the -q flag thus only printing the hash).
find -s directoryToBeChecked -type f -exec sh -c 'echo "$(basename "$0") $(md5 -q "$0")"' {} \; > checksumsForComparison.txt