If you're just looking for files having the same size, this example may be sufficient.
... my %image; opendir(DIR, $dir) or die("Couldn't open dir $dir: $!"); foreach my $file (readdir(DIR)) { my $size = -s "$dir/file_found"; # Simpler size code if (exists($image{$size})) { handle_duplicate($image{$size}, $file); } else { $image{$size} = $file; } }
If you want to do something more sophisticated, you may find it easier to build a list of potential duplicates and then postprocess each list in a second loop. The following code will build a hash of arrays, each array containing the filenames that had the same size. It then calls a checking function on each list containing more than one file name:
... foreach my $file (readdir(DIR)) { my $size = -s "$dir/$file"; push @{$image{$size}}, $file; } closedir(DIR); foreach my $list (values %image) { handle_duplicates(@{$list}) if (@{$list} > 1); }

In reply to Re: Scanning for duplicate files by kjherron
in thread Scanning for duplicate files by Amoe

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