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I found this command used to find duplicated files but it was quite long and made me confused. For example, if I remove -printf "%s\n", nothing came out. Why was that? Besides, why have they ...
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Say you have one file called foo.pdf. How can I find out whether my machine contains another file, say bar.pdf, that has the exact same content but just a different name?
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if the problem could be solved using a series of commands on the command line, it would be better for me than writing a script
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I have 20,000 photos, half of those photos are duplicates, how can I delete Meaning How can I delete pictures that contain duplicate content
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Due to moving files back and forth from my Linux PC to a Mac, I now have a few documents that duplicate. Their names seem identical, but apparently they are codified slightly differently, like in this ...
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Tools like fdupes are ridiculous overkill when dealing with jpg or h264 compressed files. Two such files having the exact same filesize is already a pretty good indication of them being identical. If, ...
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I have a large music collection stored on my hard drive; and browsing through it, I found that I have a lot of duplicate files in some album directories. Usually the duplicates exist alongside the ...
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I have multiple directories that contain text files. Some of these directories are named differently yet contain the same text files. How do I remove all duplicated directories?
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I am looking for a way in Linux shell, preferably bash to find duplicates of files based on first few letters of the filenames. Where this would be useful: I build mod packs for Minecraft. As of 1.14....
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I do and get a list of files where I would like to delete many duplicate backup files find . -type f -name '._*' I would like to find those files which have a corresponding filename /home/masi/....
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Problem: finding duplicate files should be fast and not open & hash files unnecessarily. @taltman has written a beautifully fast script, here, which only uses MD5 when files of identical size have ...
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