Re: How can I find identical files in a directory

2004-04-23 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Tue, Apr 20, 2004 at 03:39:25PM -0400, Chris Metzler ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Tue, 20 Apr 2004 21:03:15 +0200 > Wolfgang Pfeiffer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > My goal is to get easily rid of identical files on a system: > > I did something like this once for a whole filesystem with

Re: How can I find identical files in a directory

2004-04-21 Thread Johann Spies
There is a C program named "hardlink" which is known amongst Redhat-mirror administrators which can be used to scan a directory tree and hardlink all identical files to each other and in that way save space on the system. Regards Johann -- Johann Spies Telefoon: 021-808 4036 Informasiete

Re: How can I find identical files in a directory

2004-04-20 Thread Chris Metzler
On Tue, 20 Apr 2004 21:03:15 +0200 Wolfgang Pfeiffer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > My goal is to get easily rid of identical files on a system: I did something like this once for a whole filesystem with a bash script. md5sum'ing *everything* is wasteful of time and cpu cycles, since (probably) m

Re: How can I find identical files in a directory

2004-04-20 Thread Alex Malinovich
On Tue, 2004-04-20 at 14:03, Wolfgang Pfeiffer wrote: --snip-- > $ md5sum .* * | sort -ub | less --snip-- > Hints? apt-get install fdupes -- Alex Malinovich Support Free Software, delete your Windows partition TODAY! Encrypted mail preferred. You can get my public key from any of the pgp.net key

How can I find identical files in a directory

2004-04-20 Thread Wolfgang Pfeiffer
Hi All ... what I found so far was this: $ md5sum .* * | sort -ub | less 009fd9f616bab38a4fd2dda384741433 rc.spam 07ef54ec5b4352e425af6c065e5e7f50 .bashrc 07ef54ec5b4352e425af6c065e5e7f50 .bashrcdeleteit 15cc86b4a7a272d7b6aa1b43702e4395 .xinitrc 303a55356735e00975272fbe0e387cff ntpdate.check