[clug] some bash/awk scripting. use MD5's (m5sum) to find and collapse duplicate files

steve jenkin sjenkin at canb.auug.org.au
Tue Jan 24 18:12:33 MST 2012


Thanks to Chris and Scott for their most useful replies.

The wikipedia page has a list of 15 ways to skin this lemon.
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fdupes>

I didn't even think to "google first" :-(

Chris Smart wrote on 24/01/12 6:06 PM:
> On 24/01/12 15:54, steve jenkin wrote:
>> I've needed to create this for myself, others may find it useful.
>> There may well be better and more well known solutions out there...
>> I didn't look.
>>
> 
> fdupes?
> 
> -c
> 


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