Re^5: Handling Hash Comparison

[Errto]

So, I'm still not clear...what do you want it to do? In the OP you only said you wanted to compare MD5 sums of corresponding files. I don't see how copying fits into it.

[omega_monk]

I am trying to synchronize the files recursively in the 2 dirs, so that everything in the source is checked in the destination, and updated if necessary, using md5's to check the files.

[Errto]

Understood. In that case, once you follow my above suggestion for putting relative paths into the hash keys, then your cp statement simply becomes this:

"cp '$sdir/$key' '$fdir/$key'"