Re:Bicycle skills
by spydum on Wednesday August 01, 2012 @09:40PM
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Lines of bash? Seems like find all by itself should be enough (one line.. maybe a few pipes)
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Re:Bicycle skills
by ColinWright on Thursday August 02, 2012 @03:33AM
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I don't know how to persuade 'find' to identify files in directory A that are identical to files in directory B. But my point stands - I can accomplish this quickly on the command line, and know of no GUI tools that would let me do it.
See. Your discussion proves my point perfectly. Too much hassle.
Re:Bicycle skills
by ColinWright on Thursday August 02, 2012 @10:33AM
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I can't work out if you're trolling or not, but your comment doesn't make sense at all. I needed to perform a task, and I did so fairly trivially from the command line. Someone else offered what they thought might be a shorter alternative, I pointed out that the task was more complex than they thought.
You take this as evidence that it can be done from a GUI?
So, let's go back to your comment. You said:
I still haven't found a tool which
doesn't have an equivalent GUI.
If you want to make me take you seriously, please tell me how you would: Given two directories,
find all duplicate files that are
both less than 10 minutes old
In other words, given directories A and B, find all filenames f such that: $A/$f is less than 10 minutes old
$B/$f is less than 10 minutes old
$A/$f is identical to $B/$f
Now tell me how you would do that every hour for a week.