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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Removing files with same text but different file names Post 302544818 by shoaibjameel123 on Friday 5th of August 2011 06:07:00 AM
Old 08-05-2011
Removing files with same text but different file names
Hi All,

I have some 50,000 HTML files in a directory. The problem is; some HTML files are duplicate versions that is wget crawled them two times and gave them file names by appending 1, 2, 3 etc after each crawl. For example, if the file index.html has been crawled several times, it has been named as index.html.1, index.html.2 etc. But all index.html files contain the same text.

I browsed through some posts here and found this:
https://www.unix.com/shell-programmin...directory.html

I then tried the above script by creating 3 similar "test" text files containing one word (this was just to test the code given there). It works for the 3 text files where it gave me the information of two and discarded one. I can then process the output text (duplicate.files) file to get file names and delete the duplicate files or files with same text.

But when I apply the above code on my HTML directory, it does not show any files with same text. But in reality there are duplicate files or files with same text as I have manually checked it.

I am not sure where the problem is? I am using Linux with BASH.
 

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test::html::w3c

Test::HTML::W3C(3pm)					User Contributed Perl Documentation				      Test::HTML::W3C(3pm)

NAME

       Test::HTML::W3C - Perform W3C HTML validation testing

SYNOPSIS

	 use Test::HTML::W3C tests => $test_count;
	 # or
	 use Test::HTML::W3C 'show_detail';
	 # or when using both
	 use Test::HTML::W3C tests => $test_count, 'show_detail';

	 is_valid_markup($my_html_scalar);

	 is_valid_file("/path/to/my/file.html");

	 is_valid("http://example.com");

	 # Get the underlying WebService:;Validator::W3C::HTML object
	 my $validator = validator();

DESCRIPTION

       The purpose of this module is to provide a wrapper around the W3C that works with the Test::More testing framework.

ABUSE

       Please keep in mind that the W3C validation pages and services are a shared resource. If you plan to do many many tests, please consider
       using your own installation of the validation programs, and then use your local install by modifying the local validtor:

	 my $v = validator();
	 $v->validator_uri($my_own_validator);

       See the documentation for WebService:;Validator::W3C::HTML and the W3C's site at http://validator.w3.org/ for details

       validator();
	   Description: Returns the underlying WebService::Validator::HTML::W3C object

	   Parameters: None.

	   Returns: $validator

       plan();
	   Description: Access to the underlying "plan" method provided by Test::Builder.

	   Parameters: As per Test::Builder

       is_valid_markup($markup[, $name]);
	   Description: is_valid_markup tests whether the text in the provided scalar value correctly validates according to the W3C
	   specifications. This is useful if you have markup stored in a scalar that you wish to test that  you might get from using LWP or
	   WWW::Mechanize for example...

	   Parameters: $markup, a scalar containing the data to test, $name, an optional descriptive test name.

	   Returns: None.

       is_valid_file($path[, $name]);
	   Description: is_valid_file works the same way as is_valid_markup, except that you can specify the text to validate with the path to a
	   filename. This is useful if you have pregenerated all your HTML files locally, and now wish to test them.

	   Parameters: $path, a scalar, $name, an optional descriptive test name.

	   Returns: None.

       is_valid($url[, $name]);
	   Description: is_valid, again, works very similarly to the is_valid_file and is_valid_file, except you specify a document that is
	   already online with its URL. This can be useful if you wish to periodically test a website or webpage that dynamically changes over
	   time for example, like a blog or a wiki, without first saving the html to a file using your browswer, or a utility such as wget.

	   Parameters: $url, a scalar, $name, an optional descriptive test name.

	   Returns: None.

       diag_html($url);
	   Description: If you want to display the actual errors reported by the service for a particular test, you can use the diag_html
	   function.  Please note that you must have imported 'show_detail' for this to work properly.

	     use Test::HTML::W3C 'show_detail';

	     is_valid_markup("<html></html">, "My simple test") or diag_html();

	   Parameters: $url, a scalar.

	   Returns: None.

SEE ALSO

       Test::Builder::Module for creating your own testing modules.

       Test::More for another popular testing framework, also based on Test::Builder

       Test::Harness for detils about how test results are interpreted.

AUTHORS

       Victor <victor73@gmail.com> with inspiration from the authors of the Test::More and WebService::Validator::W3C:HTML modules.

BUGS

       See http://rt.cpan.org to report and view bugs.

COPYRIGHT

       Copyright 2006 by Victor <victor73@gmail.com>.

       This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.

       See http://www.perl.com/perl/misc/Artistic.html

perl v5.12.4							    2011-08-22						      Test::HTML::W3C(3pm)
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