Replace duplicates with symlinks [SOLVED]

[Derek Broughton]

Smoot Carl-Mitchell wrote:

> On Mon, 2008-07-28 at 15:27 -0400, Dave Woyciesjes wrote:
>> 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?
> 
> I do not see how it could work in any other way.

I can see how it could be _done_ another way - but I wouldn't call
it "working" :-)  If it's smart, it won't even compute the checksum unless
all the directory attributes match (including permissions!)
-- 
derek