On Sat, May 20, 2006 at 09:18:32AM -0600, Paul E Condon wrote: > On Fri, May 19, 2006 at 08:40:33PM -0700, Curtis Vaughan wrote: > > Paul E Condon wrote: > > > > >On Fri, May 19, 2006 at 07:10:41PM -0700, Curtis Vaughan wrote: > > > > > > > > >>Ok, using fdupes -f I have created a file that contains a list of all > > >>duplicate files. So, what command can a run against that file to delete > > >>all the files listed in it? > > >> > > >>Or since I know that fdupes -f works, could I just do something like: > > >> > > >>fdupes -f ./ | rm * > > >> > > >>or would that rm everything? > > >> > > >> > > >> > > > > > >read > > >man fdupes > > >note the -d option > > > > > > > > > > > > > > No actually the -d option is not an option. The reason is is because it > > then asks you after all found duplicates, which of them you wish to > > keep. Well, I have some 5000 duplicates to go through, so it will take > > forever. I would rather think of a way to use the output of fdupes or > > the file I created to delete all the duplicates. > > Do you have 5000 duplicates of a single file or 5000 duplicate groups, > i.e. groups of files that are mutually identical? Do you really want to > delete ALL copies of a file for which there are duplicates? I suspect not, > but I really don't know. If you want to keep one representative copy of > each duplicate group (what I suspect you should want), you have to provide > some method of deciding which one of the several copies that fdupes has > found. There is, I think, more to your problem than you realize. But, > I really don't know.
I think you'll probably have to loop through a listing, building a list of "originals" (that is, the first occurrence of a particular file) and then deleting anything that matches what you have already found. A
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