[geeks] listing identical files

[Phil Stracchino]

On Fri, Nov 19, 2004 at 02:24:22PM -0500, Phil Stracchino wrote:
> This is a little involved and messy, but:
> 
> md5sum * 2>/dev/null | sort > foo
> cat foo | cut -d\  -f1 > foo2
> cat foo2 | sort -u > foo3
> for f in `diff foo2 foo3 | cut -d\  -f2`; do grep $f foo; done
> 
> should show you all duplicates.  It's up to you to determine from there
> which are hardlinks, which are symlinks, and which are duplicates.


To apply this to more than a single directory at a tome, by the way,
change the first line to:

find <starting-directory> -type f 2>/dev/null | md5sum | sort > foo

it's still quick and dirty, of course.


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