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whatpix - Duplicate File Eliminator

README

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1.0 Introduction

whatpix is a GPL Perl console application which finds duplicate files and optionally moves or removes them.

Send comments, questions, suggestions, and bug reports to gerard 'at' users.sourceforge.net.

2.0 Requirements

whapix runs anywhere Perl runs. You will need the following modules on your system, if they aren't there already:

       Getopt::Long
       Digest::MD5
       Digest::SHA1
       File::Copy

3.0 Getting Started

Here is a set of steps to get whatpix up and running:

1. Un-zip/un-tar the distribution.
2. Decide which directory tree you wish to process.
3. Change directory to the parent of that directory.
4. Execute whatpix

% whatpix -d <subdir>

This will report all the duplicate files that were found.

To remove files, use -e.

         To move files, use -r -rdir <dirname>.  That will move
         any duplicate files into the directory <dirname>.