Hi ppl.
I have to check for duplicate files in a directory .
the directory has following files
/the/folder /containing/the/file
a1.yyyymmddhhmmss
a1.yyyyMMddhhmmss
b1.yyyymmddhhmmss
b2.yyyymmddhhmmss
c.yyyymmddhhmmss
d.yyyymmddhhmmss
d.yyyymmddhhmmss
where the date time stamp can be... (1 Reply)
Hi,
is it possible to remove all duplicate lines from all txt files in a specific folder?
This is too hard for me maybe someone could help.
lets say we have an amount of textfiles 1 or 2 or 3 or... maximum 50
each textfile has lines with text.
I want all lines of all textfiles... (8 Replies)
Hi
I have been struggling with a script for removing duplicate messages from a shared mailbox.
I would like to search for duplicate messages based on the “Message-ID” string within the messages files.
I have managed to find the duplicate “Message-ID” strings and (if I would like) delete... (1 Reply)
Hi all.
Am doing continuous backup of mailboxes using rsync.
So whenever a new mail arrives it is automatically copied on backup server.
When a new mail arrives it is named as xyz:2, when it is read by the email client an S is appended xyz:2,S
Eventually , 2 copies of the same file exist on... (7 Replies)
Hello,
I wrote a basic script that works however I am was wondering if it could be sped up. I am comparing files over ssh to remove the file from the source server directory if a match occurs. Please Advise me on my mistakes.
#!/bin/bash
for file in `ls /export/home/podcast2/"$1" ` ; do
... (5 Replies)
Dear All,
I have multiple files having number of records, consist of more than 10 columns some column values are duplicate and i want to remove these duplicate values from these files.
Duplicate values may come in different files.... all files laying in single directory..
Need help to... (3 Replies)
Hello again, I am wanting to remove all duplicate blocks of XML code in a file. This is an example:
input:
<string-array name="threeItems">
<item>item1</item>
<item>item2</item>
<item>item3</item>
</string-array>
<string-array name="twoItems">
<item>item1</item>
<item>item2</item>... (19 Replies)
Hi,
In a directory, e.g. ~/corpus is a lot of files and subdirectories. Some of the files are named:
12345___PP___0902___AA.txt
12346___PP___0902___AA. txt
12347___PP___0902___AA. txt
The amount of files varies. I need to keep the highest (12347___PP___0902___AA. txt) and remove... (5 Replies)
So, I have text files,
one "fail.txt"
And one
"color.txt"
I now want to use a command line (DOS) to remove ANY line that is PRESENT IN BOTH from each text file.
Afterwards there shall be no duplicate lines. (1 Reply)
This is related to my post on backup up files.
I really appreciate all the help too. :-)
I would like to delete all but the 3 newest files in my backup directory.
/media/andy/MAXTOR_SDB1/Ubuntu_Mate_18.04/
For example
Ubuntu_Documents.zip_09Aug2018_12_00... (2 Replies)