On 13-Apr-2002 Alex Malinovich wrote: > My desktop system is used by 3 users, each having a few thousand files > in their home directory. Since we primarily have the same interests, > there are a LOT of duplicates to be found. Earlier I found an mpeg movie > that all three of us had that was 120 MB. That's 240 MB of wasted space. > Unfortunately, the files won't always have the same filename. Does > anyone know of a utility that can go through and search for files with > the same size and/or date and delete them or notify me? > > -Alex
a better bet would be to md5sum the files and look for files with the same fingerprint. Should be relatively easy to code a perl/python/ruby/tcl script to walk /home and do this. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
