Weeding out Duplicate files in Hardy Heron 8.04

Loïc Grenié loic.grenie at gmail.com
Fri Jan 15 14:47:35 UTC 2010


2010/1/15 Rafiq Hajat <ipi.malawi at gmail.com>:
> Hi,
> I've been transferring all my music (MP3, OGG, FLAC, M4A, WMA) into my
> laptop and have noticed numerous duplications of the same song. The
> directory size is now 16GB and it's a nightmare to to collate and
> categorise. Any ideas on how to get rid of the duplications?
> Rafiq Hajat
> Executive Director
> The Institute for Policy Interaction (IPI)
> P. O. Box E14,
> Post Dot Net - Blantyre
> Malawi
> Mobile: +265 999 968800
> www.ipimalawi.org

     If the files are the same you can use md5sum

        Loic




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