#!/usr/bin/perl use strict; use warnings; use Digest::MD5; my @allfiles = ...; # your file lists merged (including paths) my %by_md5; for my $file (@allfiles) { open my $fh, "<", $file or die "Couldn't open '$file': $!"; binmode $fh; my $md5 = Digest::MD5->new(); $md5->addfile($fh); my $digest = $md5->hexdigest(); # or ->digest() -- hexdigest is just more "dumping-friendly"... push @{ $by_md5{$digest} }, $file; } for my $digest (grep @{$by_md5{$_}} > 1, keys %by_md5) { print "duplicates: @{ $by_md5{$digest} }\n"; }