Re: find duplicate files

[Ray Andrews <rayandrews@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 2019-04-08 6:08 p.m., Jason L Tibbitts III wrote:
> RA> I'd have thought that for donkey's years there would be utilities
> RA> that would let you find duplicates at various levels of rigour
> RA> because it's so obviously an issue that's bound to come up.
>
> What makes you think that such utilities don't exist?
I thought that they do exist, and many have been named.
> The fact that
> people discuss pure zsh ways to do something doesn't say much about
> whether non-zsh things exist.
Sure, as an exercise or some customization, but in this case it seemed 
like there was a genuine need, but the problem didn't seem exotic so I 
thought I'd ask.  Looks to me like an official 'zdupe' is in order and 
90% already cooked.
> For example, I've used "duff" for this.  http://duff.dreda.org/

What a fine document.  But why is so much computer documentation so 
bloody awful?