best way to find duplicate files

[Marius Gedminas]

On Mon, Dec 08, 2008 at 12:41:34PM -0800, Noah wrote:
> I have a bunch mp3s in a bunch of subdirectories and was wondering if 
> somebody could recommend a command line program that would search for 
> duplicates and remove all but one of the files?

apt-cache show duplicate lists

  fdupes - identifies duplicate files within given directories

which seems promising.

There's also a slow Unix one-liner that can do the same thing,
inefficiently:

  find -name '*.mp3'|xargs md5sum|sort|uniq -d

Marius Gedminas
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