Find And Locate Your Files DistroTube
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Date: 2022-03-30
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Tara
Finding duplicate files is easy - and there's several apps for that. But I'm looking for an app or script that will sort things in such a way that any pairs of directories with a large number of identical files are easily identified. Say I've got a directory of music, and an album got located in a number of places - but some copies of the album have extra tracks that the others don't (Japan release vs. US release, or some such...)
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Finding duplicate files is easy - and there's several apps for that. But I'm looking for an app or script that will sort things in such a way that any pairs of directories with a large number of identical files are easily identified. Say I've got a directory of music, and an album got located in a number of places - but some copies of the album have extra tracks that the others don't (Japan release vs. US release, or some such...)
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Kre-imir
The find command is probably the worst of all Unix tools. It is too bloated, does so many things that have little to do with finding stuff, thus being contrary to Unix philosophy. And it has terrible, inconsistent syntax. Why is --name- not --n- or ---name-?
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The find command is probably the worst of all Unix tools. It is too bloated, does so many things that have little to do with finding stuff, thus being contrary to Unix philosophy. And it has terrible, inconsistent syntax. Why is --name- not --n- or ---name-?
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Anzan
Thank you, Derek. These great CLI tools, including man pages are why I have no problem with those who insist on saying -Gnu-Linux-. I pronounce the -Gnu- silently but I do always remember it. And always have time for material on the original Unix toolset.
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Thank you, Derek. These great CLI tools, including man pages are why I have no problem with those who insist on saying -Gnu-Linux-. I pronounce the -Gnu- silently but I do always remember it. And always have time for material on the original Unix toolset.
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Lawrence
2:09 And you can do a case-insensitive search with -iname instead of -name. Useful if you have files transferred from other systems that end up with uppercase names (e.g. .TXT instead of .txt).
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2:09 And you can do a case-insensitive search with -iname instead of -name. Useful if you have files transferred from other systems that end up with uppercase names (e.g. .TXT instead of .txt).
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NapanTR
locate - searches a pre-made files database of the filesystem (hence updatedb to update the database beforehand)
find - makes an actual live search on the filesystem (slow on big harddrives)
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locate - searches a pre-made files database of the filesystem (hence updatedb to update the database beforehand)
find - makes an actual live search on the filesystem (slow on big harddrives)
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urugulu
usually what i do is execute a command afterward like find all ogg files and convert them to mp3 with ffmpeg. but for that i have a script cause i dont memorize that command...
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usually what i do is execute a command afterward like find all ogg files and convert them to mp3 with ffmpeg. but for that i have a script cause i dont memorize that command...
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Toran
-Read the man page for find-
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-You-re not gonna want to read that gigantic novel of a man page...-
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-Read the man page for find-
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Karol
How much files you have in locate index? Is it efficient when encountering >8mil files?
Btw nice video. Keep it going to introduce linux fundamentals :)
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How much files you have in locate index? Is it efficient when encountering >8mil files?
Btw nice video. Keep it going to introduce linux fundamentals :)
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se
What is the equivalent on Linux distros for the software you can install on Windows called -Everything-,which is the ultimate instantaneous file search app?
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What is the equivalent on Linux distros for the software you can install on Windows called -Everything-,which is the ultimate instantaneous file search app?
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Djordje
-I don't know your name... I don't know where you are... But I will find you!- -
Edit: perfect name for an application for indexing files - -Taken-
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-I don't know your name... I don't know where you are... But I will find you!- -
Edit: perfect name for an application for indexing files - -Taken-
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