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Removes .rpmnew files created by yum that are identical to their source

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  1. #!/bin/bash
  2.  
  3. #This script searches for .rpmnew files created by yum that are actually identical
  4. #to their base file and removes them.
  5. updatedb
  6. FILES=$(locate .rpmnew)
  7. for FILE in ${FILES}
  8. do
  9.         MD1=`echo $FILE | sed 's/.rpmnew//' | xargs md5sum | awk '{print $1}'`
  10.         MD2=`md5sum $FILE | awk '{print $1}'`
  11.         if [ $MD1 == $MD2 ]
  12.         then
  13.                 echo "$FILE removed as it was identical"
  14.                 rm $FILE
  15.         fi
  16. done
  17. updatedb

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