Re: Help with finding duplicate photos

["Tom Metro-12" <user=71@nabble.blu.org>]

 David Kramer wrote: 
> Tom Haskins-Vaughan wrote: 
>> I have a directory, /home/photos and in that 
>> folder are lots and lots of photos in many different subfolders. 
> 
> sum /home/photos/* | sort 
> 
> Wherever you see the same number at the beginning of two consecutive 
> lines, you have a match. 

Good idea, but the op mentioned that they're in sub folders, and sum 
won't traverse the directory tree. You can however use 'find' to do 
that, and then post-process the output with 'cut', 'sort', and 'uniq' to 
  report only the files that are identical. 

But I'd probably just write a small Perl program to do it using 
File::Find, and Digest::MD5, or Perl's built-in checksum capability. 

This is a common problem, so if you're not up to scripting a solution, 
check Freshmeat.net. There's probably one specifically designed for 
finding duplicate images. 

  -Tom 

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