[NTLUG:Discuss] Any "duplicate files" utilities?
Daniel Hauck
daniel at yacg.com
Sun Apr 13 12:39:16 CDT 2008
> On Sun, Apr 13, 2008 at 10:18 AM, Daniel Hauck <daniel at yacg.com> wrote:
>> I'm sure there must be at least half a dozen such utilities out there, I
>> just can't think of any for Linux.
>>
>> I seek a simple script or utility or whatever to find duplicate files on
>> media so that I can trim some redundancies out.
>
> How are you defining a "duplicate file"? Soft links, same inode (hard
> links), same name with different content, same content with different
> name, same content and name with different metadata, same content and
> metadata with different inode, something else?
>
> Regards,
> - Robert
Same name, same content... but also different name, same content might
be good as well since we're dealing with a case-sensitive filesystem.
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