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-rw-r--r--bash/util.sh9
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diff --git a/bash/util.sh b/bash/util.sh
index b0db4ad..dfdfc12 100644
--- a/bash/util.sh
+++ b/bash/util.sh
@@ -21,3 +21,12 @@ extract () {
echo "'$1' is not a valid file!"
fi
}
+
+merkle-tree () {
+ dirname="${1-.}"
+ find "$dirname" -type f | \ # get all files in the $dirname tree
+ sort | \ # sort them to get the same result on different filesystems
+ xargs sha256sum | \ # compute the SHA256 of each file, BONUS it outputs the filename, so if the content does not change but the filename does, the end hash will be different
+ sha256sum | \ # compute the final hash
+ awk '{print $1}' # omit the filename, which is `-` as stdin in this case
+}