#!/usr/bin/perl use strict; use File::Find; use File::stat; use Digest::MD5; find(\&search, "/home/test/"); sub search { my %result; # Make sure we only look at files and end in src extn. if ( -f && /\.src$/i ) { foreach my $files ( $File::Find::name ) { open(FH, $files) or die "Can't open '$files': $!"; binmode(FH); # Get/Create MD5 for the file my $hashValue = Digest::MD5->new->addfile(*FH)->hexdigest; # Store the filename, indexed by hash value, into an array. This # allows us to store multiple files with the same hash value. push( @{ $result{$hashValue} }, $files ); } # Dump out the result hash, sorting by the hash values. foreach my $key ( sort keys %result ) { # Dump out the array of filenames indexed by this hash value. We # could have sorted this list too if we wanted. foreach my $filename ( @{ $result{$key} } ) { print "$key -> $filename\n"; } } } } ------------------------------------------------------ _____Current results______ b78c8fafb9a5d4df6b36dcd35c56f6aa -> /home/test/file1.src f49f62c0d885ea4687d3149ea95c98fd -> /home/test/test2.src 6ebd09e0c2ff94316410b1444fbbb37a -> /home/test/file4.src b1a087078b62487c1d4c02f4c943af09 -> /home/test/file10.src ______Expected results________ 6ebd09e0c2ff94316410b1444fbbb37a -> /home/test/file4.src b1a087078b62487c1d4c02f4c943af09 -> /home/test/file10.src b78c8fafb9a5d4df6b36dcd35c56f6aa -> /home/test/file1.src f49f62c0d885ea4687d3149ea95c98fd -> /home/test/test2.src