[ale] combining files

[James P. Kinney III]

On Tue, 2003-09-02 at 17:34, Stephen Turner wrote:
> > When joining multiple files into one big mpg, most are sequentially
> > number (yeah, we know what you downloaded ;) 
> > so using cat *.mpg > big-pron-file.mpg will work.
> 
> LMAO yea well since its no secret heres something i wish to use for both
> private collections ;) and normal photos. i want to make sure there are no
> dupes (i copy files back and forth a lot) now i know i can sequencially
> number files through a script (thats not difficult :-p) but can i also
> check to see if they are the same photo?

That's a tough one. The best thing to verify they are the same file
would be to run md5sum on each and diff the hash strings. That would
verify the are the EXACT same file. Eats cpu time like mad, but hey! You
sure don't want multiple copies of those mpgs floating around :) 

>  my camera does funny things with
> the names some times it marks them dsc10098 and sometimes it capitolizes
> them DSC10097 in any case i wanted to get some checks going and such hehe
> for more than one reason. (me thinks me's not the only one with a
> collection) would that incorperate something like graphic grep? :-p 
> 
> thanks guys :-p 
> 
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