in reply to Finding Redundant Files

I've been using this dupfinder script to clean my midi file collection. It works great, but it dosn't recurse dirs. You could modify it. Merlyn has some code on the following page too, which would give you a good start.

dupfinder and dupseek.

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Re: Re: Finding Redundant Files
by abell (Chaplain) on Feb 07, 2004 at 10:31 UTC

    Being the original author, I am glad of it :-)

    You can download the latest version from my web site. It only finds exact duplicates, so you could use something along the lines of the trick suggested by Willard B. Trophy to avoid comparing tag info.

    As a final note, dupseek does indeed recurse subdirectories, using File::Find.

    Cheers

    Antonio



    The stupider the astronaut, the easier it is to win the trip to Vega - A. Tucket