Re: Script to delete duplicate files
On Tue, May 23, 2006 at 09:58:16AM -0700, Curtis Vaughan wrote:
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} On 19.05.2006, at 21:39, Ken Irving wrote:
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} >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:
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} >>fdupes -f ./ | rm *
} >>
} >>or would that rm everything?
} >
} >The latter. Try xargs(1), e.g.,
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} > fdupes -f ./ | xargs rm
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} This is strange. I used:
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} fdupes -f ./ | xargs rm
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} 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.
}
} What's up with that?
Give xargs the -r option to prevent it from running the commannd if there
are no arguments to give it.
--Greg
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