Re: [SLE] finding identical files

Hi Istvan,

I had the same problem a few months ago, and I discover a shell script that I
updated to find identical files in several directories. Unfortunaly I don't
remember who the original author his.

The script is quite fast once it looks for files with the same size and only
then calculates their md5sums. The output is a shell script with all the
duplicate files listed, so that you can choose the ones to delete.

There is one problem that I could not solve and I don't know the exact reason,
but it's related with files with "strange" characters in their names, like
"'`'". But this "feature" only manifested once with files that I suspected
had Chinese characters in their names.

Let me have some feed-back if you use it.

Regards

Lívio Cipriano

----- Original Message -----
Hello:

I'd like to back up my files. I have zillion directories with zillion
subdirs and it's possible that some files are duplicated. I would
like to find them before backing up. I found a software that
can do this but it's not free (zsDuplicateHunter).
Do you know one that is opensource and available for suse?
Thanks,
IG





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