I have a folder that has over 1000 text files in it and I need to check if they all have the same contents, they are all the same size so I can't tell that way - does anyone know of a mass file comparison too that will accept many files as an input and highlight any changes that differ from the first file that was loaded?
OS=Windows
md5sum is probably easiest, then compare the results. You can script this if it's done often but as a one off you can just do the below by hand.
On linux:
md5sum [first file]Take that hash (via copy/paste) and:
md5sum * | sort | grep -v [first hash]This'll leave anything that has a different hash value.