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Old 07-09-2002
Computer script to search all the directories
Hi there,

Is there any command or script to search all the directories for duplicated files?
Thanks,

Abrahim
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Old 07-09-2002
Write your own script. See man pages on 'diff', 'cmp', ... In the script, compare each file with every other. If they match, ACTION1, else, CONTINUE.
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Old 07-09-2002
There is no command to do this... but as 'lucifer' here as suggested you can write a script. Keep in mind in this script that you may be dealing with both flat files and binary files..... they will use different commands for comparisons.
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Old 07-10-2002
For larger files that cannot be handled by diff you can use bdiff.
For more details, use man bdiff.

-Nisha
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