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.TH FINDDUP 1 User Contributed Perl Documentation
.SH NAME
finddup \- Find identical files and do something with them
.SH SYNOPSIS
.SS "Usage:"
.IP
finddup [options...]
.TP
\fB\-\-man\fR
the manpage
.TP
\fB\-h\fR, \fB\-\-help\fR
a short help
.TP
\fB\-\-version\fR
the version (CVS) of the program
.TP
\fB\-n\fR, \fB\-\-noaction\fR
do just nothing, just print out (implies \fB\-v\fR)
.TP
\fB\-v\fR, \fB\-\-verbose\fR
just what the name says
.TP
\fB\-q\fR, \fB\-\-quiet\fR
be quiet
.TP
\fB\-l\fR, \fB\-\-link\fR
link the identical files together
.TP
\fB\-o\fR, \fB\-\-oldresult\fR
Use the old output of this script
.TP
\fB\-i\fR, \fB\-\-ignore\-perms\fR
Don't check that file owner and permissions match
.TP
\fB\-d\fR, \fB\-\-dir\fR
Define the dir to check (you may specify more than one)
.SH DESCRIPTION
.B finddup 
search the working directory and all files below on the same partition for duplicate files.

.B finddup 
can optional hardlink such files to save space.

Files size 0 will not be reported or hardlinked as this might give problemes later.

This is a complete rewrite of the 
.B finddup 
in perl to handle several issues:

  \- Allow spaces and other characters in filenames

  \- be faster

  \- include nodup in same script

  \- Handle files that already have other hardlinks in the same tree

  \- Several improvements

If started as nodup or nodup.pl the script will act like started with options
\-\-link and \-\-oldresult

.SH COPYRIGHT
Copyright (c) 2005 by Klaus Ethgen. All rights reserved.

.SH LICENSE
This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under
the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software
Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later
version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY
WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A
PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the GNU General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with
this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 675 Mass
Ave, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA.

.SH AUTHOR
Klaus Ethgen <Klaus@Ethgen.de<gt>

.SH HISTORY
$Log: finddup,v $
Revision 2.3  2005/02/06 18:57:42  klaus
* Make \-\-oldresult faster by not calculating the md5sum again
* Fix a but that with \-\-oldresult no links will be done cause the internal
  datastructure
* Do handle errors in open for md5sum calculation

Revision 2.2  2005/02/06 12:21:02  klaus
Little but important bug in link routine.

Revision 2.1  2005/02/05 18:43:11  klaus
Just cosmetic

Revision 2.0  2005/02/05 18:41:20  klaus
Completely new version