the following code taken directly from http://www.perlmonks.org/index.pl?node_id=111982 works fine

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

$|=1; #Autoflush ON!

my @list;
my %dupes;
my @delete;
my %digests;
my $ctx = Digest::MD5->new;

sub check_file {
    my $file=shift;

    $ctx->reset;
    open FILE,$file || die "Cant open $file!\n";
    binmode FILE;
    $ctx->addfile(*FILE);
    close FILE;
    my $digest = $ctx->hexdigest;

    if (exists($digests{$digest})) {
        print "\t$file is a dupe!\n";
        $dupes{$digest}->{$file}=1;
        push @delete,$file;
    } else {
        $digests{$digest}=$file;
    }
}

#CHANGE ME!!!
my $path='C:\Documents and Settings\user\Desktop\dir\subdir1\2010\01\0
+1';

print "I am going to look for duplicates starting at ".$path."\n";
find({wanted=>sub{if (-f $_) {check_file($_)} 
                  else {print "Searching $_\n"}},
      no_chdir=>1},$path);

print "There are ".@delete." duplicate files to delete.\n";

# Uncomment the below line to lose the duplicates!
print "Deleted ".unlink(@delete)." files!";

}

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what I am trying to do is modify the code to loop through each subdirectory and am having a problem: 
@directories = grep -d,<*>;
foreach $directory (@directories) {

#CHANGE ME!!!
my $path='C:\Documents and Settings\user\Desktop\dir\\' . $directory .
+ '\2010\01\01';

}

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I get the duplicate message but the files are not being added to the @delete array. I feel like I'm missing something with the backslashes but can't seem to figure out the fix.

any ideas?

In reply to delete duplicates in windows subdirectories by casimo

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