[SlugBug] shell script help
Bill Best
bill at commedia.org.uk
Wed Aug 6 20:33:40 BST 2003
hi
please envisage the following two directories:
directory1/aaa
directory1/bbb
directory1/ccc
directory2/xxx
directory2/yyy
directory2/zzz
now I suspect that some files in directory2 duplicate some files in
directory1 - the same data has been uploaded under a different name
(don't ask). for example above, directory2/yyy contains exactly the
same data as directory1/aaa - they just have different names.
i want to write a bash script to compare each file in directory2 to each
file in directory1 and, if the files are the same, to delete the file in
directory2. if a file in directory2 does not match any file in
directory1 then no action is taken.
i know that `cmp file1 file2` will compare two files in _any_ format and
will return a '0' if the same and a '1' if different. i don't know
much about scripts, however, nor how to code a for loop.
any help gratefully received.
bb
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