Re: find duplicate files

[Oliver Kiddle <okiddle@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

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?

There are multiple. I tend to use duff (DUplicate File Finder) for the
purpose. There's also samefile. And I've come across one or two others
over the years.

Oliver