Interesting. I wrote my own that does pretty much the same thing, but in a different way (I only use one hash, so I suspect it will use less memory (but see response below for the final word)).

#! /usr/bin/perl -w

use strict;

use File::Find;
use Digest::MD5;

my %digest;
my $total_bytes = 0;
my $dups = 0;

sub wanted {
     return unless -f $_;
     my $bytes = -s _;
     return unless $bytes;

     if( !open IN, $_ ) {
             print "Cannot open $_ for input: $!\n";
             return;
     }

     my $md5 = Digest::MD5->new;
     my $d   = $md5->addfile( *IN )->digest;
     close IN;

     if( defined $digest{$d} ) {
             print "$bytes\t$digest{$d}\t$File::Find::name\n";
             $total_bytes += $bytes;
             ++$dups;
     }
     else {
             $digest{$d} = $File::Find::name;
     }
 }

 foreach my $d ( @ARGV ) {
     print "=== directory $d\n";
     find \&wanted, $d;
 }

 printf "Statistics:
     Duplicates: %12d
          Bytes: %12d
         KBytes: %12d
         MBytes: %12d
         GBytes: %12d\n",
     $dups,
     $total_bytes,
     $total_bytes / (1024**1),
     $total_bytes / (1024**2),
     $total_bytes / (1024**3);

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It is very verbose, but that's because I pipe the output into something that can be handed off to users in a spreadsheet so that they can do their own housekeeping (2Gb of duplicates in 45Go of files...).

BTW, you can also save a squidgin of memory by using the digest() method, rather than the hexdigest() method, since the value is not intended for human consumption.

In reply to Re: Find duplicate files. by grinder
in thread Find duplicate files. by salvadors

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