<div dir="ltr">I use fdupes for identifying and removing duplicate files. <div><br></div><div><a href="http://code.google.com/p/fdupes/">http://code.google.com/p/fdupes/</a><br></div><div><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra">
<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Oct 18, 2013 at 1:24 PM, Derek Atkins <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:derek@ihtfp.com" target="_blank">derek@ihtfp.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
Have you tried the "hardlink" utility? man hardlink<br>
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-derek<br>
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On Fri, October 18, 2013 12:59 pm, JD wrote:<br>
> Slashdot had a question about this 1-2 yrs ago. Lots of people suggested<br>
> scripting it, others pointed out some C code on sourceforge.<br>
><br>
> I had a few hrs free that day and wrote some Perl (200+ LOC). Use it all<br>
> the<br>
> time, but I'd probably go with the C tool for any very large datasets.<br>
> Mine<br>
> doesn't automaticly remove anything and is far from perfect, that is<br>
> certain.<br>
> It is relatively fast on most types of files, however.<br>
><br>
> On 10/18/2013 12:34 PM, Calvin Harrigan wrote:<br>
>> Good Afternoon,<br>
>> I'm looking for a little advice/recommendation on file<br>
>> de-duplication<br>
>> software. I've have a disk filled with files that most certainly have<br>
>> duplicates. What's the best way to get rid of the duplicates. I'd like<br>
>> to<br>
>> check deeper than just file name/date/size. If possible I'd like to<br>
>> check<br>
>> content (checksum?). Are you aware of anything like that? Linux or<br>
>> windows is<br>
>> fine. Thanks<br>
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