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 353cf20528b041f5538b1650b9c4a735 settimescript 3f9ab0d37cd16ec7850e6718f7d5bb33 user.action 62f07f52acc8399747f56243221cd6dc default.action [ ... ] In the example above you can see that .bashrc and .bashrcdeleteit are, as I hope, the same files (and it'll produce an error, if there's a directory it can't process, IINM .... ) My goal is to get easily rid of identical files on a system: With the incantation above this can become very cumbersome and time-consuming. So perhaps it's good to have something like the output that a diff -s <file> <file1> is showing, with a report along the line of that <file> and <file1> are identical, resp. that they differ, and then grep the identical ones. Hints? Thanks in anticipation. Best Regards Wolfgang -- Profile, Links: http://profiles.yahoo.com/wolfgangpfeiffer -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]