Replace duplicates with symlinks [SOLVED]

[Brian McKee]

On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 3:19 PM, Smoot Carl-Mitchell <smoot at tic.com> 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.

That's interesting - you have more than one file with the same
checksum that are not identical?
I thought that was mathematically very unlikely...

Do you have some examples?

And I assume we are talking hard links not soft links?

Brian