remove duplicate files in a directory

Shell Programming and Scripting
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Hi ppl.
I have to check for duplicate files in a directory .
the directory has following files
/the/folder /containing/the/file
a1.yyyymmddhhmmss
a1.yyyyMMddhhmmss
b1.yyyymmddhhmmss
b2.yyyymmddhhmmss
c.yyyymmddhhmmss
d.yyyymmddhhmmss
d.yyyymmddhhmmss

where the date time stamp can be different for the same file hence the risk of duplicate files.
How do i make the validate so that there are no duplicate files to be processed .
Anubha

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PS: one directory doesn't have duplicated names...

if you run cksum or another hash like md5 you can find duplicates that way:

cd /path/to/wherever
for file in `ls *`
do
      cksum $file
done | awk '{ 
         arr[$1]++
         if(arr[$1]>1)  {print $0 }
         } ' > ./duplicate.files