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Lines of bash? Seems like find all by itself should be enough (one line.. maybe a few pipes)
by spydum 14y ago
Lines of bash? Seems like find all by itself should be enough (one line.. maybe a few pipes)
- ColinWright 14y agoI don't know how to persuade 'find' to identify files in directory A that are identical to files in directory B. But my point stands - I can accomplish this quickly on the command line, and know of no GUI tools that would let me do it.
- Kiro 14y agoSee. Your discussion proves my point perfectly. Too much hassle.
- ColinWright 14y agoI can't work out if you're trolling or not, but your comment doesn't make sense at all. I needed to perform a task, and I did so fairly trivially from the command line. Someone else offered what they thought might be a shorter alternative, I pointed out that the task was more complex than they thought. You take this as evidence that it can be done from a GUI? So, let's go back to your comment. You said: I still haven't found a tool which doesn't have an equivalent GUI. If you want to make me take you seriously, please tell me how you would: Given two directories, find all duplicate files that are both less than 10 minutes old In other words, given directories A and B, find all filenames f such that: $A/$f is less than 10 minutes old $B/$f is less than 10 minutes old $A/$f is identical to $B/$f Now tell me how you would do that every hour for a week.