Re: Eliminating duplicate photos

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On Mon, 29 Sep 2008 14:00:43 -0400
Trapper <trapper@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>  have a problem similar to Timothy's. If I run "md5sum *" on a folder, 
> in a terminal,  it lists all the sums. My problem is that I have several 
> thousand files. Is there some way I can output the results to a text 
> file?

md5sum * > textfile

will create a file named textfile in the current directory (along with all of
your photos).

> Can't copy and paste unless there's some way for me to adjust the 
> terminal to allow the last several thousand lines to display. Then I'm 
> also going to have to sort all those lines into some alphabetical order 
> to reasonably detect duplicate sums. Any ideas?

man sort
man uniq

These commands will do exactly what you are looking for.

fslint is a very slick way to find duplicate files, too.

yum install fslint

You'll be impressed.

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