signature for a file ?

[Shagshag13]

"Shagshag13" <shagshag13 at yahoo.fr> a écrit dans le message de news: ai5ned$11p711$1 at ID-146704.news.dfncis.de...
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> Hello,
>
> i would like to have your opinion on this...
>
> i had at home many hdds, that could contain many time same files, in many places/directories (-> i'm really disorganized).
> i would like to do some sort on theses files. to do this i'm planning to write a python script that would compute a kind of CRC32,
> MD5 or SHA (i'm really not competent in that - so here i need advices and pointer to some implementations - and to know which is
the
> best to had a unique unambiguous signature for a file) and then use it to find "doubles" : same size + same signature = probably
> same file.

Looking for something else I find a script doing what i want to... See "Subject: Re: Dup detector [Conclusion]"
@ http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&selm=6r23tp%24eaa%241%40nnrp1.dejanews.com31/07/2002 (url might be
cut)

regards,

s13.