On Monday 21 May 2007 23:51:24 Klaus Ethgen wrote: > Hi Weskey, > > Am Di den 22. Mai 2007 um 0:53 schrieb Wesley J. Landaker: > > > 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. =) > > I am the author of perforate. Well I rewritten it from scratch as the > original tool had some flaws. > > It is very easy to add a option for symlinking. But there is a little > problem deciding which of the files should be the symlink and which the > original. With hardlinks this is not the problem as after hardlinking > the files together there is no different between them. In my case, it could be arbitrary and it would be fine. But it might be a good idea to always sort by directory hierarchy (i.e. always either prefer to symlink either up or down a directory tree). > > 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. > > That would be the other way. finddup can print out the double files. One issue I have with both finddup and fdupes, is they both don't quote their output very sanely; or at least, in not in a particularly easy manner for parsing (I can do it with a lookbehind regex). For example: $ finddup . 2 './file with spaces' './file1' './file with (parens)' './file with a newline' './file2' './file with 'ticks'' './file with "quotes"' $ fdupes -1 . ./file1 ./file\ with\ a newline ./file\ with\ "quotes" ./file\ with\ 'ticks' ./file\ with\ (parens) ./file\ with\ spaces ./file2 I would LOVE it if it would shell quote the output or something... or if there was a -0 option to delimit things with nulls... or something that could make it work reliably with any filename.... Anyway, sounds like maybe I should file some wishlist bugs. =) -- Wesley J. Landaker <wjl@icecavern.net> <xmpp:wjl@icecavern.net> OpenPGP FP: 4135 2A3B 4726 ACC5 9094 0097 F0A9 8A4C 4CD6 E3D2
Attachment:
signature.asc
Description: This is a digitally signed message part.