2009/7/23 Simon O'Riordan <voluntar...@btopenworld.com>: > I think the ideal programme would scan the hard drive and count > instances of all the filenames it found. > Any instance count greater than 1 would generate a log entry in a text file. > You could just leave it running in the background; perhaps it could pop > up a message when finished. > > Andrew Montgomery-Hurrell wrote: >> Would help if I posted the link: >> http://darkliquid.co.uk/2009/07/10/a-quick-script-i-wrote-to-replace-duplicate-files-with-symlinks/ >> >> >>>> On Jul 23, 2009 6:50 PM, "Ralph Corderoy" <ra...@inputplus.co.uk> wrote: >>>> >>>>> Hi Peter, >>>>> >> >> >>> My thoughts were to do an 'Ls -something' piped into a file, then > >>> >> perhaps if I could do a sort ... >> >> >>>> What do you mean by `duplicate'? If you mean you want to group all > >>>> >> files called `foo' togeth... >> >> -- Next meeting: Bournemouth, Wednesday 2009-08-05 20:00 Dorset LUG: >> http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ Ch... >> > -- > Next meeting: Bournemouth, Wednesday 2009-08-05 20:00 > Dorset LUG: http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ > Chat: http://www.mibbit.com/?server=irc.blitzed.org&channel=%23dorset > List info: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/dorset >
You could try fdupes - i used it to clear up all my duplicate music. It does it on MD5 hashs, so it takes a while to build a full list. However, it does have a nice interactive mode (non-interactive spews a list of duplicates and doesnt do anything else) so you can go through and delete as you go. ~Dan -- Next meeting: Bournemouth, Wednesday 2009-08-05 20:00 Dorset LUG: http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ Chat: http://www.mibbit.com/?server=irc.blitzed.org&channel=%23dorset List info: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/dorset
