Duplicate file finding script

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Tue, Sep 20, 2005 at 05:03:59PM +0000, Jason Shein wrote:
> For those of you whose hard drives are cluttering up with possibly duplicate 
> files, try this little script out. 

Or you could use this nice program:

lennartsorensen at debdev1:~$ apt-cache show fdupes
Package: fdupes
Priority: optional
Section: utils
Installed-Size: 80
Maintainer: Adrian Bridgett <bridgett-8fiUuRrzOP0dnm+yROfE0A at public.gmane.org>
Architecture: i386
Version: 1.40-4
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.3.2.ds1-4)
Filename: pool/main/f/fdupes/fdupes_1.40-4_i386.deb
Size: 14066
MD5sum: 8e527f7436a6394702d24bb6fd7fabca
Description: Identifies duplicate files within given directories
 FDupes uses md5sums and then a byte by byte comparison to find duplicate
 files within a set of directories. It has several useful options
 including recursion.

Probably a bit faster than perl being a c program.

Lennart Sorensen
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