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Simple, easy to use and powerful shell script. That detects same file with same hash and removes one of them.
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#!/bin/bash | |
# The script will detect copy files from current directory (sha512hash) and remove copy ones with prompt. | |
# Usage: ./rm_multi_files.sh | |
files=$(ls -1) | |
files_count=$(ls -1 | wc -l) | |
echo "Total files: $files_count" | |
# echo "Files: $files" | |
# Loop through files count | |
for ((i = 1; i < $files_count; i++)); do | |
# Get file name | |
file_1=$(echo "$files" | sed -n "$i"p) | |
if [ -f "$file_1" ]; then | |
# Get file hash | |
file_1_hash=$(sha512sum "$file_1" | awk '{print $1}') | |
# Loop through files count | |
for ((j = i + 1; j < $files_count; j++)); do | |
# Get file name | |
file_2=$(echo "$files" | sed -n "$j"p) | |
if [ -f "$file_2" ]; then | |
# Get file hash | |
file_2_hash=$(sha512sum "$file_2" | awk '{print $1}') | |
# Check if file hash is same | |
if [ "$file_1_hash" == "$file_2_hash" ]; then | |
echo $file_1_hash $file_2_hash | |
# user prompt | |
echo "file_1 : $file_1" | |
echo "file_2 : $file_2" | |
echo "Are same. Please press 1 for deleting file_1 and 2 for file_2(2) also you can (p)ass or (e)xit ? (1/2/p/e)" | |
read -r answer | |
if [ "$answer" == "1" ]; then | |
echo "Removing $file_1" | |
rm "$file_1" | |
elif [ "$answer" == "2" ]; then | |
echo "Removing $file_1" | |
rm "$file_1" | |
elif [ "$answer" == "p" ]; then | |
continue | |
else | |
exit | |
fi | |
fi | |
fi | |
done | |
fi | |
done |
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