Re: finding doubles of images?

[Sønke Lorenzen <solorenzen@gmail.com>]

On 7/21/05, Bruno Boettcher <bboett@bboett.dyndns.org> wrote:
> Hello!
> 
> i am collecting photos from an event coming from different sources, i am
> at a count of 1500 images so far, still more coming in, unfortunately
> the people did allready synchronise among themselves in certain cases,
>     and even worse, they renamed the files....
> 
> are there any means to detect identical images in an automated way? Size
> alone doesn't do it.... as i had to discover....
> 

Hi,

fdupes can detect identical files in differnet locations

# aptitude show fdupes
Package: fdupes
State: not installed
Version: 1.40-4
Priority: optional
Section: utils
Maintainer: Adrian Bridgett <bridgett@debian.org>
Uncompressed Size: 81.9k
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.3.2.ds1-4)
Description: Identifies duplicate files within given directories
 FDupes uses md5sums and then a byte by byte comparison to find duplicate files
 within a set of directories. It has several useful options including
 recursion.

Regards,
Sønke