Replace duplicates with symlinks [SOLVED]

[Dave Woyciesjes]

Smoot Carl-Mitchell wrote:
> On Mon, 2008-07-28 at 14:30 -0400, Dave Woyciesjes wrote:
> 
>> 	Very interesting.... I wonder how it compares the files and decides 
>> which to delete? By name alone? File size? Time stamp? And does it move 
>> the files to the Trash, or somewhere else? More research is needed....
> 
> Interesting tool.  However, you need to be very careful about merging
> file with it.  It compares files by checksumming the contents.  Files
> which are identical at a point in time, may not be appropriate to
> replace with either hardlinks or symlinks. The tool found a lot if
> identical files in my .evolution directory which would not be
> appropriate to symlink.

	Hmmm, so it will only merge 2 files if they have identical contents? 
e.g. 2 text.txt files will be merged, unless one has an extra letter?

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