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Re: Script to delete duplicate files



On Tue, May 23, 2006 at 09:58:16AM -0700, Curtis Vaughan wrote:
> 
> On 19.05.2006, at 21:39, Ken Irving wrote:
> 
> >On Fri, May 19, 2006 at 07:10:41PM -0700, Curtis Vaughan wrote:
> >>Ok, using fdupes -f I have created a file that contains a list of all
> >>duplicate files. So, what command can a run against that file to  
> >>delete
> >>all the files listed in it?
> >>
> >>Or since I know that fdupes -f works, could I just do something like:
> >>
> >>fdupes -f ./ | rm *
> >>
> >>or would that rm everything?
> >
> >The latter.  Try xargs(1), e.g.,
> >
> >  fdupes -f ./ | xargs rm
> >
> 
> This is strange. I used:
> 
> fdupes -f ./ | xargs rm
> 
> and it worked great!!!
> Now I need to do the same thing for another mail directory, so I  
> moved into it and issued the same command and I get:
> rm: too few arguments
> Try `rm --help' for more information.
> 

maybe fdupes -f provided no output in this mail directory?

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