Howto find same files?
Favre Gregoire
greg at ulima.unil.ch
Sun Oct 29 09:52:07 EST 2000
Erik Max Francis wrote:
>
> gregoire.favre at ima.unil.ch wrote:
>
> > Would it be a good idea to create a files which contains the
> > path,filename,size,md5sum and then working on it?
>
> My utility which eliminates duplicate files (written in Python) simply
> keeps 1. the filename it first saw the file as (for reference), 2. a tag
> which can be used to indicate in what group it was seen (say, a date),
> 3. the file size, and 4. a 32-bit CRC. Since you're evidently already
> using a UNIX-like system, you can get the CRC for free: `cksum'. (This
> also gives you the file size without any extra work, which is helpful
> not so much for uniquely identifying the file, but also for being able
> to determine the size of your processed collection from the databaes
> alone.)
>
> It's really quite straightforward to write one; what's giving you
> trouble?
> Erik Max Francis / max at alcyone.com / http://www.alcyone.com/max/
That's depend on your knowledge on programming... I have looked for your utility
on you HP, is it really on it?
Thanks you very much,
Greg
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