Re: find duplicate files

[Volodymyr Khomchak <kolombo.inc@xxxxxxxxx>]

Why wouldn't simple find work for this purpose ?
This example can do what you need

|find -not -empty -type f -printf "%s\n" | sort -rn | uniq -d | xargs -I{} -n1 find -type f -size {}c -print0 | xargs -0 
md5sum | sort | uniq -w32 --all-repeated=separate If you want something dedicated then look at *fdupes* utility |

On 4/8/19 5:58 PM, Ray Andrews wrote:
> Pardon a comment from the peanut gallery, but it seems strange to me that the issue of duplicate files would be 
> something that would not have been solved definitively  50 years ago.  I'd have thought that for donkey's years there 
> would be utilities that would let you find duplicates at various levels of rigour because it's so obviously an issue 
> that's bound to come up.  No?