/tags/media/ Recent content in Media on Saleem Ansari Hugo -- gohugo.io en (c) 2024 Saleem Ansari Tue, 04 Sep 2007 00:00:00 +0000 /2007/09/04/finding-duplicate-files-on-your-system/ Tue, 04 Sep 2007 00:00:00 +0000 /2007/09/04/finding-duplicate-files-on-your-system/ I ( and many others ) have a lot media files ( mp3, jpg, avi, etc. ) lying around in the system. I wondered that how shall I get the list of all the duplicate files lying in my computer. Writing a script in Ruby which identifies the duplicate files using the MD5 hash values of the files contents, was no difficult a task. Here is the script. #!/usr/bin/ruby ## This file finds all the duplicate files form a directory given ## at the command line.