Samefile utility

[Scott J. Henson]

Bjørn Ingmar Berg wrote:
> After a bit of googling I found the samefile utility at
> http://www.schweikhardt.net/samefile/
>
> I have used the "Search package directories" web-form to look
> for it among the Ubuntu packages, but haven't found it.
>
> Is there another utility already in Ubuntu that does the same?
> If not, can someone possibly build an Ubuntu version of samefile
> and put it in the respositories?
>   

I'm not sure what your trying to do, but from the description of the
program, you are trying to clean up duplicate files?  diff can do that,
but it would be a little convoluted, so I would advise against that.

As for packaging samefile, it doesn't look like it would be hard at
all.  The problem is that dapper is in upstream version freeze and there
fore I doubt that this utility would even slip into Universe. 
Alternatively you can install it into your home directory or /usr/local.