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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Unique files in a given directory Post 302544380 by cue on Wednesday 3rd of August 2011 02:50:03 PM
Old 08-03-2011
Unique files in a given directory
I keep all my files on a NAS device and copy files from it to usb or local storage when needed. The bad part about this is that I often have the same file on numerous places. I'd like to write a script to check if the files in a given directory exist in another.

An example:

say I have a directory called "Stuff" and another called "AllMyFiles" I want a script to check the directory "Stuff" to tell me which files already exist in "AllMyFiles". The way I currently do this is to use fdupes to create a list of all duplicate files in both directories, then use grep to spot which duplicate files are in "Stuff". The drawback to this is that it checks all files for any duplicates, including those in "AllMyFiles", so fdupes takes a long time. Is there a clever way of avoiding this and checking only the files in "Stuff" to see if a duplicate exists for it in "AllMyFiles"?
 

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Locale::Msgfmt(3pm)					User Contributed Perl Documentation				       Locale::Msgfmt(3pm)

NAME

       Locale::Msgfmt - Compile .po files to .mo files

SYNOPSIS

       This module does the same thing as msgfmt from GNU gettext-tools, except this is pure Perl. The interface is best explained through
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	 use Locale::Msgfmt;

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	 # files to the po directory, and include fuzzy translations
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	 # files to the output directory, creating the output directory if
	 # it doesn't already exist
	 msgfmt({in => "po/", out => "output/"});

	 # Compile all the .po files in the po directory, and write the .mo
	 # files to the output directory, and include fuzzy translations
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       This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.

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