Ubuntu – Generate a separate .md5 file for each .fastq file in a directory

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I am trying to generate separate .md5 files for each .fastq file in a directory. I found solutions to generate a single .md5 file for many files, but this is not what I am looking for.

I have file1.fastq, file2.fastq, file3.fastq and want to generate file1.md5, file2.md5, file3.md5.

I assume that a FOR loop would do the trick but I am not a programmer and can't seem to find a solution to this problem.

I also tried the following code:

find . -type f -name "*.fastq.gz" -exec sh -c "md5sum < {} > {}.md5" \;

It correctly generates an .md5 file for each .fastq file, but the .md5 file contents are incorrect, i.e. I get 64399513b7d734ca90181b27a62134dc -

instead of 64399513b7d734ca90181b27a62134dc testfile.fastq

Can anyone help?

Best Answer

The simplest case is:

for file in *fastq; do md5sum "$file" > "$file".md5; done

That, however, will create file names like file1.fastq.md5. Extensions are basically irrelevant here, so that isn't a problem, but if you prefer file1.md5 do this instead:

for file in *fastq; do md5sum "$file" > "${file//.fastq}".md5; done
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