On Monday 21 May 2007 00:16:13 Philipp Matthias Hahn wrote: > On Sun, May 20, 2007 at 07:42:56PM -0600, Wesley J. Landaker wrote: > > For a package problem I'm trying to solve (#414422), it would be nice > > to have a tool that could find duplicate files (ala fslint[1] or > > fdupes[2]) and turn them into symlinks. > > If hardlinks are okay too, see the "perforate" package (I find this > package hard to find, since the name is somewhat misleading). It's > written in Perl. Well, thanks, I didn't know about this one. But, it does really *have* to be symlinks. I've found a few other tools that do hardlinks. =) Anyway, if there isn't something that already does it, I can probably just parse the output of one of these programs and do the symlink replacement myself. -- Wesley J. Landaker <wjl@icecavern.net> <xmpp:wjl@icecavern.net> OpenPGP FP: 4135 2A3B 4726 ACC5 9094 0097 F0A9 8A4C 4CD6 E3D2
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