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How do I get the MD5 sum of a directory’s contents as one sum?

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How do I get the MD5 sum of a directory’s contents as one sum?

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How about:

find   -type f -print0 | xargs -0 cat | md5sum

Summing all the contents of all the files?

(EDIT: Revised to deal with whitespace in filenames)