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1whatpix - Duplicate File Eliminator
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71.0 Introduction
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9 whatpix is a GPL Perl console application which finds duplicate
10 files and optionally moves or removes them.
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12 Send comments, questions, suggestions, and bug reports to
13 gerard 'at' users.sourceforge.net.
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162.0 Requirements
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18 whapix runs anywhere Perl runs. You will need the following modules
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21 Getopt::Long
22 Digest::MD5
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24 File::Copy
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273.0 Getting Started
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29 Here is a set of steps to get whatpix up and running:
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31 1. Un-zip/un-tar the distribution.
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33 2. Decide which directory tree you wish to process.
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35 3. Change directory to the *parent* of that directory.
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37 4. Execute whatpix
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39 % whatpix -d <subdir>
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41 This will report all the duplicate files that were found.
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43 To remove files, use -e.
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45 To move files, use -r -rdir <dirname>. That will move
46 any duplicate files into the directory <dirname>.
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