How to locate all duplicate files?

Brian Cluff brian at snaptek.com
Thu Apr 22 08:45:57 MST 2010


I would recommend installing fdupes.  It should be available in your 
package repository and it does exactly what you are looking to do.

Brian Cluff

On 04/21/2010 12:53 PM, joe at actionline.com wrote:
>
> What command syntax can I use to locate all duplicate files (filenames) on
> my system?  Or, more specifically, within any specified directory on the
> system?
>
> Also, how can I tell which duplicates have identical contents and which
> duplicates have different content (or at least different file sizes)?
>
>
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