[X-Unix] Finding duplicates

peter boardman pete.boardman at pobox.com
Tue Jun 29 08:23:43 PDT 2004


Philip J Robar <philip.robar at myrealbox.com> said on 28/6/04, 14:01
(-0700 GMT):
 
> On Jun 28, 2004, at 9:44 AM, peter boardman wrote:
> 
> > Is there a clever way to find files that are identical to each
other?
> > (I know that diff can compare two files, I’m wondering how to find
> > them...)
> 
> You could do this with ksh, awk, Perl, etc. Something like this
comes 
> to mind:

Thanks - probably a job for Perl. I found fdupe.pl which does the job.

Pete



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