Re: Script to delete duplicate files

[Joris Huizer <jorishuizer@planet.nl>]

Curtis Vaughan wrote:
> No actually the -d option is not an option. The reason is is because it 
> then asks you after all found duplicates, which of them you wish to 
> keep. Well, I have some 5000 duplicates to go through, so it will take 
> forever. I would rather think of a way to use the output of fdupes or 
> the file I created to delete all the duplicates.

The 'yes' program could help you with that :-) it endlessly sends a 
string (defaulting to 'y') to output - something like this should do it 
(but I didn't test it)

	yes|fdupes -d -f ./


HTH,

Joris