[ILUG] Same data on several computers

[Colm MacCarthaigh]

On Sun, Jun 12, 2005 at 03:33:29PM +0100, Timothy Murphy wrote:
> I have innumerable files scattered over four or five computers,
> and I would like to work out which are the same,
> and organise them in some rational way.
> Is there a Great Robotic Organizer program that will do this?

I can't recommend much in the way of an program that will rationalise
the existing clutter, although a short script doing;

	find $wherever -type f | xargs md5sum

with a central "sort" would be easy enough. But when you get it done, or
decide to start afresh, using some kind of version control (subversion,
CVS, and so on) might be a good solution to your problem. Using one
would allow you to keep files accross multiple systems in-sync fairly
easily.

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Colm MacCárthaigh                        Public Key: colm+pgp at stdlib.net