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If you want to compute MD5 hashes for an directory, you can use following script. I added some exclusions needed for my projects.

#!/bin/bash

DIR="$1"
MD5="file.md5"

if [ -z "$DIR" ]; then
 DIR="."
fi

rm -f "$DIR/$MD5"

find \
    "$DIR" \
    -type f \
    -not \( \
        -path "*.svn*" -o \
        -path "*.cache*" -o \
        -path "*.settings*" -o \
        -path "*.metadata*" -o \
        -name ".buildpath" -o \
        -name ".buildpath" -o \
        -name ".project" -o \
        -name "$MD5" \
    \) \
    -print0 | \
xargs -0 md5sum >> "$DIR/$MD5"

After that you can check the directory against this file.

md5sum -c file.md5

If you want to compute MD5 hashes for an directory, you can use following script. I added some exclusions needed for my projects. After that you can check the directory against this file.