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Toallpointswest · Joined: Tue Oct 17, 2006 5:02 pm Posts: 3 Location: America

I've been trying the fdupes command from this months issue to find and delete duplicate files

Kev1729 · Joined: Sun Mar 25, 2007 9:25 pm Posts: 25

If you use it with the --delete flag it works fine, else if you are using your own script (or indeed one that came with the mag, shows how much i read it) to delete the files you would need to escape the filenames first.
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nelz

xargs doesn't handle filenames with spaces at all well. If you replace "| xargs rm" with

Toallpointswest · Joined: Tue Oct 17, 2006 5:02 pm Posts: 3 Location: America

nelz

More likely that the variable contained something rm didn't like. It should have deleted everything up to the dodgy item, so try

Toallpointswest · Joined: Tue Oct 17, 2006 5:02 pm Posts: 3 Location: America

Tried it on another directory, and I have the file list I expected, so I'll try it again.

EDIT: Okay tried it again and, it creates a listing of file names, with a blank line in between each line. I think that the error I'm seeing is rm trying to delete that blank line, as when I re-run fdupes on that directory it finds no dupes, so it is working.