Find duplicated files

[Ow Mun Heng]

On Tue, 2005-10-04 at 18:19 +1000, Nick Bishop wrote:
> This won't thread properly, coz I'm replying from a
> digest.
> 
> > Is there anyway I can now which files are 
> > duplicated in some directories?
> 
> One approach is to use find, then use md5sum, then use
> sort on the output of md5sum, then look for duplicate
> md5's.
> 
>   $ find /home -type f -print0 \
>     | xargs -0 md5sum \
>     | sort ... \
>     | less

Not a bad idea.

Only thing with this good idea is it needs more of a script to actually
look for the duplicate md5sum. A huge directory will most definitely
have an issue.

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