finding duplicates?

[David A. Sinck]

\_ SMTP quoth Lynn David Newton on 2/28/2002 12:28 as having spake thusly:
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\_   David> I smell a find coming up.
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\_ find alone would be inadequate. 

Heh, yeah.  Amazingly, find doesn't have a --duplicate-files option
:-)

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\_ #!/bin/ksh
\_ find "$@" -follow -type f |
\_   while read f; do md5sum $f; done |
\_   sort | uniq -w 32 -D

I think perhaps running md5sum on every file might be a bit of a CPU
heater.  If I were inclined to be nice to the CPU, I'd check size then
md5sum if the same...unless you're coffee's cold or you have cycles to
burn.  :-)

David