[geeks] listing identical files

[Kevin]

This seems to work fine for my purposes.

Thanks,
/KRM

On Fri, 19 Nov 2004 14:24:22 -0500
Phil Stracchino <alaric at caerllewys.net> wrote:

> On Fri, Nov 19, 2004 at 12:56:15PM -0500, Kevin wrote:
> > Anyone know of a way of listing all the identical files in a
> > directory?
> > 
> > I have a directory containing several large files, many of
> > which are just duplicates with differing names.  I would like
> > to find a way to list all the identical files to help rescue
> > some drive space.
> 
> 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.
> 
> 
> 
> 
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