Duplicate file finding script

[Jason Shein]

On September 20, 2005 09:27 pm, Lennart Sorensen wrote:
> 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

I tried that when I was sorting my music collection, but I seem to recall that 
it did not function as I required. I think that fdupes outputs as it goes (or 
blindly deletes on of the duplicates) and requires constant interaction. When 
dealing with thousands of files looking into the script afterwards proved to 
be more feasible.

That's one of the nice things about Linux. Many different paths will lead to 
the same outcome.

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