Question : Unix + Linux --->  checksum for a directory

How to generate checksum for an entire directory in Unix.
Any command or script??

Thnx

Answer : Unix + Linux --->  checksum for a directory

You can use the md5sum command like this:
 md5sum /folder-name/*

or with you also want the subdirectories :
find /folder-name -type f | xargs -n 1 md5sum