[ale] combining files

[Geof]

--- "James P. Kinney III"
<jkinney at localnetsolutions.com> wrote:
> 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 :)

How about 'cmp' smaller bite on the cpu.

> 
> >  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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