Re: [patch #4600] Addition of "dups" file utility to GNU Core Utilities

[Pádraig Brady]

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.