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# 8  
Old 09-04-2006
thanks one more question
how can i add something that will show me the file path?
i also like to see all the files that are duplicates i change abit the script to :

#!/bin/sh
find . -type f -name "*.*" | while IFS= read vo
do
echo `basename "$vo" | ls -l`
done

but it still dont give me the path
thanks
# 9  
Old 09-04-2006
Quote:
Originally Posted by umen
echo `basename "$vo" | ls -l`
This is wrong becouse I remove path from filename for uniq utility to compare filenames that prints duplicate entries. E.g. if you have 3 files ./1/file, ./2/file, ./3/anotherfile then script will print
file
file
anotherfile
and uniq -d will print only
file
(a duplicate one).
Then you can use find -type f -name "file" to find out path to the file. It will print
./1/file
./2/file
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