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. -- MELVILLE THEATRE ~ Melville Sask ~ http://www.melvilletheatre.com DRY CLEANER BUSINESS FOR SALE ~ http://www.canadadrycleanerforsale.com -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines