Weeding out Duplicate files in Hardy Heron 8.04

Patton Echols p.echols at comcast.net
Sun Jan 17 21:32:17 UTC 2010


On 01/15/2010 06:47 AM, Loïc Grenié wrote:
> 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
>
>   

I can see how you would use md5sum to see if the files are the same, but 
how would you use it to remove duplicates?





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