Brendan Halpin wrote:
> At the risk of waking the dead, I'll disturb a sleeping thread...
>> Timothy Murphy <tim at birdsnest.maths.tcd.ie> writes:
>>>>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?
>>>>In connection with this,.
>>is there any way when I delete a file on one computer
>>of saying "and delete this file anywhere on any computer on the system"?
When I'm looking for duplicate files in a (single) directory tree, I
tend to do something like:
find . -type f -exec md5sum {} \; | sort | uniq -Ddw33 | less
It's slow, but effective, and doesn't need any directory structure
whatsoever to be imposed. If you're feeling paranoid you can also check
for md5sum collisions before deleting what appear to be duplicates.
It shouldn't be hard to modify for use with multiple directories.
Christian / cjb
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