war story: parallel(1) command

Tue Jul 30 16:20:12 UTC 2013

On Tue, Jul 30, 2013 at 11:04:49AM -0400, David Mason wrote:
> If you're trying to find duplicates, use the fastest scan possible as
> a first cut... like size... then, if you have a lot of files of the
> same size, compare hashes (any hash will do because) finally do a
> byte-wise comparison on the files.

I like fdupes, which does it exactly that way.

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Len Sorensen
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