Get information about the files within a directory, including list of files, their sizes and md5 hashes.

directory data.sh

#/usr/bin/env bash

# for a given directory myDirectory, create a list of all files within that directory
# note that file names are not enclosed in quotes here
find myDirectory -type f -exec echo {} \; > myDirectory.files.text
# if you want them in quotes, 
# find myDirectory -type f -exec echo \"{}\" \; > myDirectory.files.text

# and a list of the sizes of each of these files
find myDirectory -type f -exec echo \"{}\" \; | xargs -n1 du -sh > myDirectory.files.sizes.text

# and a list of the sizes of each of these files
find myDirectory -type f -exec echo \"{}\" \; | xargs md5 > myDirectory.files.md5.text