I must agree wholeheartedly with the recommendation of belg4mit to explore the usage of Digest::MD5 for the comparison of files. The following is a small script that I wrote previously based upon a node by demerphq here which may be of use for comparative purposes.

#!/usr/bin/perl -wT use Digest::MD5; use File::Find; use IO::File; use strict; $| = 1; $ENV{'PATH'} = '/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/local/bin'; my $ctx = Digest::MD5->new; my %digest; my $path = $ARGV[0] || '.'; find ({ 'wanted' => sub { if (-f $_) { lstat; if ((-r _) && (!-l _)) { $ctx->reset; my $fh = IO::File->new($_, 'r'); $ctx->addfile(\$fh); my $md5 = $ctx->hexdigest; if (exists $digest{$md5}) { push @{$digest{$md5}->{'dupes'}}, $_; } else { $digest{$md5} = { 'file' => $_, 'dupes' => [] } } } } else { print "Searching $_\n"; } }, 'no_chdir' => 1 }, $path); print "There are ", ((scalar @{$digest{$_}->{'dupes'}}) || 0), " dupli +cate files.\n"; exit 0;

 


In reply to Re: Duplicate file bounty hunter by rob_au
in thread Duplicate file bounty hunter by djw

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