Am 30. Sep, 2003 schw=E4tzte Austin Godber so: > So, is there an easy way to remedy this? Compare the contents of every f= ile to > see if they are identical and replace copies with hardlinks? Sounds like= a job > for find's exec action which I can't successfully get to work due to quot= ing > troubles. ls -liR . | sed -e 's/^ *//g' | egrep "^[0-9]" | cut -d' ' -f1 | sort Look for dups. I'll leave that as an exercise for the user :). find . -inum > PPS - They will be largely replaced with shiney new bash scripts ... it w= ould be > sooner if I didn't have to take a 4 day trip to Taiwan this weekend. Well, enjoy the trip :). ciao, der.hans --=20 # https://www.LuftHans.com/ http://www.AZOTO.org/ # Freedom isn't everything, but without freedom you have nothing. - der.ha= ns