script to search all the directories

Shell Programming and Scripting
1

Hi there,

Is there any command or script to search all the directories for duplicated files?
Thanks,

Abrahim

2

Write your own script. See man pages on 'diff', 'cmp', ... In the script, compare each file with every other. If they match, ACTION1, else, CONTINUE.

3

There is no command to do this... but as 'lucifer' here as suggested you can write a script. Keep in mind in this script that you may be dealing with both flat files and binary files..... they will use different commands for comparisons.

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For larger files that cannot be handled by diff you can use bdiff.
For more details, use man bdiff.

-Nisha