Find duplicate file and remove


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Perl 1 liner + additional linux command to find duplicate files and remove it - only spare 1 file.


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  1. #!/bin/sh
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  3. find "$@" -type f -print0 | xargs -0 md5sum | sort | perl -ne
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  5. 'chomp;$x=$y;($y,$z)=split(/\s+/,$_,2); print "$z"."\x00" if ($x eq $y)' | xargs -0 rm -v --
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  7. #OR
  8. #if wanna find out size of all files to calculate space storage
  9. #change the
  10. # xargs -0 stat -c %s | awk'{SUM+=$1}END{print SUM/1024/1024}'

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