Re: How to locate all duplicate files?

I don't have time to write the script right now, but a something simple
like:

find . * | xargs ls -l | awk -F" " '{print $7 $9}'

then man on sort and uniq. You could also just toss the output into a
spreadsheet.

-Mike

On Wed, Apr 21, 2010 at 3:53 PM, <joe@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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