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From: Bart Schaefer <schaefer@brasslantern.com>
To: Ray Andrews <rayandrews@eastlink.ca>
Cc: Zsh Users <zsh-users@zsh.org>
Subject: Re: find duplicate files
Date: Mon, 8 Apr 2019 09:45:56 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAH+w=7YPJ72DsrV5-d-FUpdsu9YWMQFQ7Bgk7PgsggWQru=m=A@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <765759fc-cd56-e13b-c346-47041bb63a86@eastlink.ca>

On Mon, Apr 8, 2019 at 9:30 AM Ray Andrews <rayandrews@eastlink.ca> wrote:
>
> So then why do we need a new zsh based solution?

The most typical answer would be that you have a shell and the
standard utilities but not the ability or permission necessary to
install a new specialized utility.

Another answer is that it's an interesting algorithmic question and
demonstrates techniques that could be applied to other problems.

> particularly note what Peter said about files that are logically
> different but coincidentally the same.

Yes, if you run my sample script in an active zsh build tree it will
find a lot of those.

  reply	other threads:[~2019-04-08 16:46 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-04-06  5:40 Emanuel Berg
2019-04-06 13:02 ` Paul Hoffman
2019-04-06 14:44   ` Emanuel Berg
2019-04-06 19:11     ` zv
2019-04-06 19:42       ` Emanuel Berg
2019-04-08 14:37         ` Paul Hoffman
2019-04-08 14:58           ` Ray Andrews
2019-04-08 15:14             ` Volodymyr Khomchak
2019-04-08 15:24             ` Peter Stephenson
2019-04-08 15:32             ` Andrew J. Rech
2019-04-08 15:47             ` Oliver Kiddle
2019-04-08 16:29               ` Ray Andrews
2019-04-08 16:45                 ` Bart Schaefer [this message]
2019-04-08 21:30               ` Emanuel Berg
2019-04-09  1:08             ` Jason L Tibbitts III
2019-04-09  1:28               ` Ray Andrews
2019-04-09  9:28               ` Charles Blake
2019-04-08 21:26           ` Emanuel Berg
2019-04-07 11:16       ` Charles Blake
2019-04-07 21:32         ` Bart Schaefer
2019-04-08 11:17           ` Charles Blake
2019-04-08 17:14             ` Bart Schaefer

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