Weeding out duplicate odt/doc files (almost fully solved...)

[john d. herron]

Thank for your help, Michael. I've tested Komparator and it seems to be 
just right for my purpose.


Michael Zoet wrote:
> There are some nice tools to get the work done:
>
> cmp - compare two files byte by byte on the command line
>
> diff - compare files line by line on the command line
>
> Please see "man cmp" and "man diff" for the full feature set.
>
> These are the old school Unix tools every Unix/Linux system should have.
>
> With diff you can compare hole directories:
>
> diff <PATH_TO_DIRECOTRY_ONE> <PATH_TO_DIRECOTRY_TWO>
>
> With compare you have to provide every file by hand. Or make use of a 
> loop (for, while, etc.) on the command line or write a shell script.
>
> If you like GUIs more: last week I stumpled over a KDE programm called 
> "komparator":
>
> "Komparator is a KDE application that allows the user to search two 
> directories and synchronize them interactively. Unlike other (command 
> line) tools the user has intuitive control over what is done."
>
> I tested it once and it seems to work. Install it with "sudo apt-get 
> install komparator".
>
> Also there are two other tools specializing in directory and file 
> synchronisation:
>
> rsync - command line only. Install it with "sudo apt-get install rsync"
>
> unison - command line and GUI programm. Install it with "sudo apt-get 
> install unison" for the command line and "sudo apt-get install 
> unison-gtk" for the GUI version.
>
> ATTENTION: please read the manual pages before using rsync or unison 
> and make backup copies of the directories for the first use. If you do 
> something wrong you might delete your files!
>
> For your problem I would use unison.
>
> Greetings,
>
> Michael
>
> P.S.: the manual page for unision is build in. Type "unison -doc 
> topics" on a command line to get the topics and "unison -doc tutorial 
> | less" for the tutorial.
John Herron wrote:
>> I have this box equipped with a single 40GB harddrive shared by 
>> Win98SE / SuSE9.2 / Kubuntu 7.04.
>> There are two partitions that harbor respectively Kubuntu (hda3 - 
>> ext3 - 11GB) and SuSE9.2 (hda5 - ext3 - 13GB).
>> While the contents of these two partitions differ considerably from 
>> one another, hda5 still contains several hundred text files (some 
>> Word docs, some OO odt's) that are identical with files on hda3.
>> I'm going to continue working with Kubuntu (my favorite distro) but 
>> must clear the SuSE partition to make room for other stuff.
>> The idea is to delete any duplicate text/doc versions from hda5 
>> (SuSE) and move all the non-duplicate ones to hda3 (Kubuntu) before I 
>> reformat hda5.
>> For good measure I've backed up the /home folders of both distros and 
>> some other items like e.g. Thunderbird profiles.
>> My question: is there a good way of determining which text/doc files 
>> are identical across the two distros (by filename and modification 
>> date, or by content), short of doing it manually?
>
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