How to run MD5 check for multiple fastq files in different subdirectories?

Question

I have received Illumina sequencing reads for 100 samples. I have 8 R1.fastq.gz and 8 R2.fastq.gz files for each sample in each subfolder. I want to run an MD5 check for all the fastq files in each subfolder.

My folder structure looks like:

/mydata/sequencing/clean
/mydata/sequencing/clean/Sample1
/mydata/sequencing/clean/Sample2
......
/mydata/sequencing/clean/Sample100

I am using the following code being on the /mydata/sequencing/clean directory.

find . -type f -exec md5sum-lite {} \;

This code is printing the md5 result on Terminal.

How do I get these results printed to a .txt file? Besides, is there a more elegant way to do this MD5 check?

Thank you.

Answer 1

Small modification,

find . -type f -exec md5sum-lite {} \; >> output.txt

If you use > the output will almost certainly contain a single record.