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Old 01-17-2009
Finding Duplicate files
How do you delete and and find duplicate files?
Last edited by Jicom4; 01-18-2009 at 04:14 PM..
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Old 01-18-2009
Hi Jicom,

Try this to read the filenames one by one:
Code:
DIR="directory_of_files"
CD $DIR
ls $DIR | while read FILE; do
echo "$FILE"
done

However you may just want to use uniq:

Code:
ls <location_of_files> | sort | uniq -d

This will show duplicate lines in your file.
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