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Old 10-20-2009
Hey Thanks,

I actually wrote this. I obtained the files and locations from a find command creating the data1 and data2 txt files.

Code:
F1=data1.txt
F2=data2.txt


while IFS= read -r line

do

        cf=$line
        grep -q "$cf" ${F1}

        if [ $? == 0 ]
            then

            diff $line `echo $line | sed 's/data2/data1/g' `

            if [ $? == 0 ]
                then
                echo $line 
                fi

            fi



done < "$F2"


Then I removed them with the below. Most likely a poor way to achieve, however it worked.

Code:
#!/bin/bash

for file in `cat duplicate_data`
do

dFile=`echo $file | sed s/data2/data1/ `


#create md5sum 
mdFile1=`md5sum $file |awk '{print $1}'`
mdFile2=`md5sum $dFile |awk '{print $1}'`

if [ -f $file ]
then
  if [ $dFile ]
    then
      if [ $mdFile1 == $mdFile2 ]
        then
          echo $file 
          rm -f $dFile
      fi
   fi
fi



done


I used a input file to

---------- Post updated at 08:34 PM ---------- Previous update was at 08:25 PM ----------

Quote:
I check back your post's and I find this one.
Suggestion: use fdupes(1) to find duplicate file

Wow,

How simple. I wish I had this before.

Thanks so much for your help.

Jaysunn
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