[Techtalk] interesting photo management problem-- weeding out duplicates

[Carla Schroder]

On Mon, 28 Apr 2014 00:56:00 +0200
Miriam Ruiz <miriam at debian.org> wrote:

> 2014-04-28 0:40 GMT+02:00 Carla Schroder <carla at bratgrrl.com>:
> 
> > Thoughts? Brainstorms? I also looked at the Organize command
> > included in Exiv2, but I couldn't get it to build on my system.
> 
> I kind of do more or less the same, but using the program fdupes:
> 

This is the first time I have heard of fdupes. It looks good for taming
my photo archives.


> b=""
> fdupes tmp/ --recurse | \
>   while read f
>     do
>       if [ "$f" = "" ]
>     then
>       b=""
>     else
>       if [ "$b" = "" ]
>     then
>       b="$f"
>     else
>       rm "$f" && echo "Remove \"$f\""
>       ln -v "$b" "$f"
>     fi
>   fi
> done
> 
> Greetings,
> Miry
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