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Re: Help with finding duplicate photos



 Tom Haskins-Vaughan wrote: 
> Hi, here's the scenario. I have a directory, /home/photos and in that 
> folder are lots and lots of photos in many different subfolders. Now, 
> since I'm paying by the gig to back these up remotely I'd like to make 
> sure that there are no duplicates. If i can get a list of duplicate 
> filenames, I'm happy to go through and check that they're actually 
> duplicates manually, but I'm not too good on the command line. 
> 
> Any help would be greatly appreciated. 

sum /home/photos/* | sort 

Wherever you see the same number at the beginning of two consecutive 
lines, you have a match. 

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