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README.md

finddu.pl

a simple tool to find duplicates of a single file.

SYNOPSIS

finddu.pl [-hrRxXfFv] file dir

Find any duplicate of file in directory dir

Options:

-h	print some help and exit
-r	recurse into directories (default)
-R	don't recurse into directories
-x	stay on same filesystem (default)
-X	search across filesystem boundaries
-f	follow symlinks
-F	don't follow symlinks (default)
-v	slightly more verbose output

DESCRIPTION

This program attempts to find duplicates of the file anywhere within the directory dir. It returns matches that are considered close enough in that only the size and the MD5 checksum of the file needs to match.