[NBLUG/talk] Finding duplicate files

Jeremy Turner jeremy at linuxwebguy.com
Mon Jul 7 07:55:01 PDT 2003


On Sun, 2003-07-06 at 23:02, Lincoln Peters wrote:
> Is there an easy way to do a recursive search for duplicate files, 
> preferably from the shell?  The best I've come up with is:
[snip]

> Of course, this doesn't work recursively (I tried using `find`, but it 
> didn't handle filenames with spaces properly)

I've been using `find` a lot lately with some image manipulation
(<shamelessPlug> I have some cool fireworks pictures up on my website
that I took from the 4th and 5th at Six Flags MW http://linuxwebguy.com
</shamelessPlug>) and I found that you have to put quotes around the {}
tags in find.  Then it works.  Well sometimes.  Then I ended up just
renaming the dirs to not have spaces.

Jeremy
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