Pete's Linux Advent Calendar 2008
The 8th day
Finding duplicate files
Here's one way to find duplicate files:
find "${@:-.}" -type f -size +0 -print0 | xargs -0 md5sum | sort | uniq -w32 -D
It calculates the md5sums of every file and prints the filenames with equal checksums.
Pete's Linux Advent Calendar 2008
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