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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Dealing with files with spaces in the name Post 302360708 by jakethegreycat on Friday 9th of October 2009 08:30:09 PM
Old 10-09-2009
Hmm.... i tried that and i don't think it works... its also causing a new problem. I'll post my entire script so it is easier to see what I'm doing.

Code:
#!
#
#This script will search out duplicate files and remove duplicates
#
#directory=NULL
#echo "Wht directory would you like to remove duplicates from?"
#read directory
cd ~/Desktop/test_remove
for i in *
do

    for j in *
    do
        if [ "$i" != "$j" ]
        then            
            cmp -s -- "$i" "$j" 
            c=$?
            if [ $c == 0 ]
            then
                if [ "$j" > "$i" ]
                then
                    rm "$j"
                else
                    rm "$i"
                fi 
            fi    
        fi
    done
done
exit 1

The new problem i'm having is some of the duplicates are no longer getting deleted but rather the files are just being emptied. i'm using a folder full of varying text files (some duplicates some not) but some of the duplicates are being returned with the text being missing since i've added the --
Last edited by Franklin52; 10-10-2009 at 08:00 AM.. Reason: Please use code tags!!
 

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