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# 1  
Old 01-01-2014
List duplicate files based on Name and size
Hello,

I have a huge directory (with millions of files) and need to find out duplicates based on BOTH file name and File size.

I know
Code:
fdupes

but it calculates MD5 which is very time-consuming and especially it takes forever as I have millions of files.

Can anyone please suggest a script or tool to find duplicates just based on file name "and" file size. It would be nice to be able to filter based on minimum file size.

Thanks
Last edited by prvnrk; 01-01-2014 at 02:31 PM..
# 2  
Old 01-01-2014
Proceed in 2 steps :
1. Log size and filename in a tempfile (removing the path from the filename).
2. Then sort it and get the duplicates
Code:
find /huge_dir -type f -printf "%s %p\n" | sed 's:/.*/::' >/tmp/mytmp
sort /tmp/mytmp | uniq -d

Note that for processing such a number of objects it would be advisable to use a database instead.

Code:
find /huge_dir -type f -printf "%s %f\n" >/tmp/mytmp
sort /tmp/mytmp | uniq -d

Last edited by ctsgnb; 01-01-2014 at 05:32 PM.. Reason: Remove sed clause (Thx Rudi)
# 3  
Old 01-01-2014
I guess duplicate filenames means files in different directories? Do you need the full path of the dupes? Then - if your version of find and uniq allow for it - use printf "%h %f %s\n"and uniq -d --skip-fileds=1
This User Gave Thanks to RudiC For This Post:
ctsgnb
# 4  
Old 01-01-2014
Ha ! yup! ... i missed the %h and %f ... Smilie
# 5  
Old 01-02-2014
I tried the below but it doesn't show correct results.

Code:
find . -type f -printf "%s %f\n" |sort |uniq -d -f 2

Here, I was just trying to get list of duplicates with "File size" only.

Code:
# ls -l
total 104696
-rwx------+ 1 Admin None 24867520 Jan  1 21:08 Anand-My_Career_1-SDVL.7z
-rwx------+ 1 Admin None 28732186 Jan  1 21:09 Anand-My_Career_2-SDVL.7z
-rwx------+ 1 Admin None 24867520 Jan  1 21:08 Anand-My-Career-1-SDVL.7z
-rwx------+ 1 Admin None 28732186 Jan  1 21:08 Anand-My-Career-2-SDVL.7z

# find . -type f -printf "%s %f\n" |sort |uniq -d

# find . -type f -printf "%s %f\n" |sort |uniq -d -f 2
24867520 Anand-My_Career_1-SDVL.7z

#

It is supposed to display 2 duplicates but shows only one.
What is the mistake am I doing here? Smilie
# 6  
Old 01-02-2014
You could give a try to something like :

Code:
find /huge_dir -type f -printf "%s %f %h\n" >/tmp/mytmp

Then to display those having the same size :

Code:
sort /tmp/mytmp | awk '{z=y;y=$1;w=x;x=$0;v=u;u=$2}(z==y){print w RS x}'

Then to display those having the same name :

Code:
sort -k 2,2 /tmp/mytmp | awk '{z=y;y=$1;w=x;x=$0;v=u;u=$2}(v==u){print w RS x}'

# 7  
Old 01-02-2014
Try
Code:
find . -printf "%h\t%f\t%s\n" | sort -k2 | uniq -Df1

if your tools allow for those options...
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