duplicate files

[Jay S]

Hi, Luni - long time no talk, I hope everyone is well.

I'm looking for suggestions.

Over the last 20 years, I've built up directories, of directories, of directories of the same information - same files, same structure

Basically, as I moved from computer to computer, I'd copy everything to my NAS.

For example:

/home/bin

/home/Excel

/home/Jay_OLD/bin

/home/Jay_OLD/Excel

/home/Jay2/bin

/home/Jay2/Excel

Where bin & Excel are going to be the same (same directory structure, same files) across all the locations - but in my case there are 100 directories.

I'd like to consolidate all of these, and looking for good suggestions.

Thanks

Jay

[Arun Khan]

First step would be to eliminate the duplicate files.

'fdupes' does this by recursively going down directory paths and listing the duplicate files.

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Arun Khan

[Linux]

if the files are exactly the same -- use md5sum on the files. Any with the same md5 value - you have a duplicate.

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[Jay S]

Thanks for this
reading up on fdupes now

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