Dear Paidraig,
You're right, it doesn't fit in with coreutils and GNU software.
But I didn't know that. Anyways, thanks to the GNU folks, I fixed two
serious bugs in it. Works perfectly now, tested on a Slackware filesystem.
Thanks, guys!
Regards,
George
George John Gesslein II
http://www.mathomatic.com
On Mon, 7 Nov 2005, Pádraig Brady wrote:
anonymous wrote:
URL:
<http://savannah.gnu.org/patch/?func=detailitem&item_id=4600>
Summary: Addition of "dups" file utility to GNU Core
Thanks, I'm not sure that's general enough for a coreutil. maybe?
I'm not sure you're using the optimum algorithm. Have a
look at http://www.pixelbeat.org/fslint. The core duplicate
finder part is written in shell using existing coreutils and
is faster than any standalone program I've seen yet.
Also there are existing utilities to do this:
ftp://ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/mirror-tools/
http://netdial.caribe.net/~adrian2/fdupes.html
...
Pádraig.
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