xxhashdir

Usage

this package does fast filesystem fingerprinting using xxHash

# instead of "find . -type f -exec xxhsum {} \+"
$ ./xxhashdir .
...
880788507839261490    README.md
11541949788444589007  .travis.yml
6467850080536788703   bin/xxhashdir.go
...

typical CLI use:

./xxhashdir dir > before
# modify fs
./xxhashdir dir > after
diff <(sort before) <(sort after) | sort -nk3

Speed

Times faster than find + exec. Digesting xcode-10.2 with >250K files:

Golang api

func Hashdir(root string, out chan Entry)

where

type Entry struct {
    Path   string
    Xxhash uint64
}