Doing some cleaning (Linux Mint)

[ancusmitis]

I'm going through some of my files on my laptop and I'm about to start with my desktop. I have a lot of files with the same name, since I use both computers, and some files I have modified and others are identical to the source I copied from.

I was wondering if anyone knew a script or a program that would let me search for identical files of the same name and choose which one(s) I wanted to keep or rename.

I know about "diff" but I'm not very good at using/interpreting it, and anyway I want to do more than just two files at a time.

I am using Linux Mint 17.1 with the KDE desktop. 32 or 64 bit is fine (I've got one of each)

 

[ifiwerewrongidknowit]

What kind of files are you talking about?
Are they like text files, music, video or photo?

 

[ancusmitis]

What kind of files are you talking about?
Are they like text files, music, video or photo?

Text files I guess, but not plaintext. ODT and DOC, mostly. Actually, there are some image files too

 

[ifiwerewrongidknowit]

Text files I guess, but not plaintext. ODT and DOC, mostly. Actually, there are some image files too

I see.
I needed a duplicate finder for photos a few years ago, that's when I came across DupeGuru. You can download it for free I believe.
I used it on Ubuntu, but since Mint is derived from Ubuntu, it should work - given that you choose the right package for your Mint release. When I was playing around with Mint some time ago I believe I managed to install DupeGuru on it.
Should you have problem with installing from package, you could always try to build it from source.
Anyway, it works great with photos, even when one is a crop from another.
About the ODT and DOC files I can't really give you advice.
Good luck!

 

[ancusmitis]

I see.
I needed a duplicate finder for photos a few years ago, that's when I came across DupeGuru. You can download it for free I believe.
I used it on Ubuntu, but since Mint is derived from Ubuntu, it should work - given that you choose the right package for your Mint release. When I was playing around with Mint some time ago I believe I managed to install DupeGuru on it.
Should you have problem with installing from package, you could always try to build it from source.
Anyway, it works great with photos, even when one is a crop from another.
About the ODT and DOC files I can't really give you advice.
Good luck!

Thank you :3

 

[ifiwerewrongidknowit]

Actually I just feel kind of bad, because I couldn't help you with the ODT and DOC files.
Hopefully someone else can.

 

[Timemachine]

you can run a simple shell script

find ~/ -name "*.DOC"

or

RESULT=`find ~/ -name "*.DOC"`

this will store all paths in $RESULT
then you can run a loop

RESULT=`find ~/ -name "*.DOC"`

for PATH in ${RESULT[*]}; do
    echo $PATH
    #here you can do everything with the files. As example
    rm $PATH # will delete the file
done

exit 0

I am not sure what you want to do.
If you want to see if 2 files are exactly the same you can generate the md5 string

md5 ~/path1/file.DOC; md5 ~/path2/file.DOC

If they are the same file you will see something like this:

MD5 (file.DOC) = a35142bb7ae8f572868f746ec86c694c
MD5 (file.DOC) = a35142bb7ae8f572868f746ec86c694c

 

[ShonSpawnPn]

Yo.
I'm faced with a problem. I can not find a driver for my pocket calculator(HP).
There are a lot of viruses or doesn't work at all or more,they want me to make a paid subscription.Need a help.

 

[ThomasAlkab]

About your issue, there is a lot of resources where you can find and select drivers for your PC.Several months ago I had a pain in the ass with this MSI (Microstar) Server Products Drivers. I found some sites, when I try to find answer on my promlem.I am not sure that you can find the ans there, but you can try. There was no difficulties with them,which you were touched.Here the links:

http://driverscenter.com/manufacturers/msi-microstar/server-products
http://drivers.softpedia.com/manufacturers/msi-microstar/server-products/
http://www.driverscape.com/manufacturers/msi-microstar/server-products

 

[ShonSpawnPn]

Yo.
I'm faced with a problem. I can not find a driver for my laptop(Lenovo).
There are a lot of viruses or doesn't work at all or more,they want me to make a paid subscription.Help me,please.