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Old 09-04-2006
how to find duplicate files with find ?

hello all
I like to make search on files , and the result need to be the files that are duplicated?
# 2  
Old 09-04-2006
Duplicated by name or by content?
# 3  
Old 09-04-2006
by name
also nice to know .. how by content
thanks
# 4  
Old 09-04-2006
pipe output from find -type f through basename (in a script only) and then through uniq -d
# 5  
Old 09-04-2006
E.g. 1.sh:
Code:
#!/bin/sh
find -type f | while IFS= read vo
do
echo `basename "$vo"`
done

Then
Code:
$ ./1.sh | uniq -d

# 6  
Old 09-04-2006
can you explain me please what is : "while = IFS read vo? "
I can find it in man while ...
can it be one liner?
Thanks allot
# 7  
Old 09-04-2006
Quote:
Originally Posted by umen
can you explain me please what is : "while IFS= read vo? "
This is to handle files with spaces in filenames (IFS= removes internal space field separator)

I dont know how to make this in one line (becouse of besaname syntax, it cannot read filenames from stdin)

By the way, to compare files by content you can use cmp command (but you need to compare each file with each).
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