Date: Sun, 31 May 1998 20:22:54 +0100 From: Karl Pielorz <kpielorz@tdx.co.uk> To: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Removing duplicate files? Message-ID: <3571AE0E.8F9E5AED@tdx.co.uk>
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Hi All, Is there any way (or some hints on a shell script or something) to remove duplicate files in a massive directory tree? Some software I have creates 'message files' with non-descript names, but theres loads (read hundreds) of duplicate messages, all with different filenames... What I need to be able to do is remove all the duplicate files (even though they may not have duplicate file names)... The only thing I could think of was to MD5 the whole lot, sort the list of MD5 checksums and then go nuking... ;-) Unless theres some other utlitiy or something I've not heard of? Regards, Karl Pielorz To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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