Need a script to delete multiple files

navycow · #1 (**permalink**) 01-06-2006

Hello,

I am working with about 500,000 text files and 90% of them are duplicates. I need a way to delete the duplicate ones.

The files are email messages with the following file name examples:

20040129-1457 This is the Subject line.txt
20040129-1457 This is the Subject line-1.txt
20040129-1457 This is the Subject line-2.txt
20040129-1457 This is the Subject line-3.txt
20040129-1457 This is the Subject line-4.txt
20040129-1459 This is the other subject line.txt
20040129-1459 This is the other subject line-1.txt
20040129-1459 This is the other subject line-2.txt
20040129-1459 This is the other subject line-3.txt
20040129-1459 This is the other subject line-4.txt
20040129-1459 This is the other subject line-5.txt

etc etc etc...

Is there any way to delete the ones that are named with the serial at the end?

these files are on a Macintosh running OSX 10.4.3 and it seems that the finder cant handle that many files effectively. A unix script would work better i think.

Thanks for any help.

Ashu

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