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awk '!x[$0]++' <file>
2009-12-20 02:33:21
User: din7
Functions: awk
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Remove duplicate entries in a file without sorting.

Using awk, find duplicates in a file without sorting, which reorders the contents. awk will not reorder them, and still find and remove duplicates which you can then redirect into another file.

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find . -type f -print0|xargs -0 md5sum|sort|perl -ne 'chomp;$ph=$h;($h,$f)=split(/\s+/,$_,2);print "$f"."\x00" if ($h eq $ph)'|xargs -0 rm -v --
2009-06-07 03:14:06
User: masterofdisaster
Functions: find perl rm xargs
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DELETE all those duplicate files but one based on md5 hash comparision in the current directory tree

This one-liner will the *delete* without any further confirmation all 100% duplicates but one based on their md5 hash in the current directory tree (i.e including files in its subdirectories).

Good for cleaning up collections of mp3 files or pictures of your dog|cat|kids|wife being present in gazillion incarnations on hd.

md5sum can be substituted with sha1sum without problems.

The actual filename is not taken into account-just the hash is used.

Whatever sort thinks is the first filename is kept.

It is assumed that the filename does not contain 0x00.

As per the good suggestion in the first comment, this one does a hard link instead:

find . -xdev -type f -print0 | xargs -0 md5sum | sort | perl -ne 'chomp; $ph=$h; ($h,$f)=split(/\s+/,$_,2); if ($h ne $ph) { $k = $f; } else { unlink($f); link($k, $f); }'
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sudo find /usr/share/hunspell/ -lname '*' -delete
2010-11-07 15:11:02
User: atti
Functions: find sudo
Tags: spellcheck firefox dictionaries
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Delete duplicated dictionaries in spell check list

When you right click a text box in Firefox and you have installed a few dictionaries you'll see a loooong list of spellcheckers. Most of them are duplicated (symlinks). This command deletes de duplicates and reduces the list.

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fdupes DIRECTORY/ -r -d
2011-03-05 09:48:35
User: desmatron
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find duplicate files in a directory and choose which one to delete

allow you to find duplicates files in "DIRECTORY" and choose wich one to delete

fudpes must be installed: sudo apt-get install fdupes

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find . -type f -exec md5 '{}' ';' | sort | uniq -f 3 -d | sed -e "s/.*(\(.*\)).*/\1/"
2012-01-14 08:54:12
User: noahspurrier
Functions: find sed sort uniq
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Find Duplicate Files (based on MD5 hash) -- For Mac OS X

This works on Mac OS X using the `md5` command instead of `md5sum`, which works similarly, but has a different output format. Note that this only prints the name of the duplicates, not the original file. This is handy because you can add `| xargs rm` to the end of the command to delete all the duplicates while leaving the original.

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find-duplicates () { find "$@" -not -empty -type f -printf "%s\0" | sort -rnz | uniq -dz | xargs -0 -I{} -n1 find "$@" -type f -size {}c -print0 | xargs -0 md5sum | sort | uniq -w32 --all-repeated=separate; }
2013-01-23 23:20:26
User: mpeschke
Functions: find md5sum sort uniq xargs
Tags: bash sort uniq find md5sum xarg
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Find Duplicate Files (based on size first, then MD5 hash)

This is a modified version of the OP, wrapped into a bash function.

This version handles newlines and other whitespace correctly, the original has problems with the thankfully rare case of newlines in the file names.

It also allows checking an arbitrary number of directories against each other, which is nice when the directories that you think might have duplicates don't have a convenient common ancestor directory.

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