Re: Help with finding duplicate photos

["Tom Haskins-Vaughan" <user=1517@nabble.blu.org>]

 Thanks guys, I'll have a look and let you know how I get on. 

Tom Metro wrote: 
> 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 
>