Hendrik Boom: > > There wouldn't happen to be any handy tools for searching a directory > tree with a few hundred ASCII files and telling me which ones have > similar content?
I don't know about any tools ready for use, but if your files aren't too large you could build something out of my (or any other) implementation of metric space indexes: http://well-adjusted.de/mspace.py Depending on the number and the size of your files, this might be a little slow, though. This implementation is faster, but has less features: http://code.activestate.com/recipes/572156/ You would have to index all your files and then iterate over all the files again and search for similar files in the index. It is hard to tell whether this approach would save time, but it is a good opportunity to learn some Python, in case you don't already know it. :) J. -- I no longer believe my life will be long, happy, interesting or fulfilled [Agree] [Disagree] <http://www.slowlydownward.com/NODATA/data_enter2.html>
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