Scottish Elises

Quick question,

I have a music folder which ,over the years, has become contaminated with duplicate files (thanks itunes). Can anyone recommend a program to weed them out? I've tried a couple but whilst bthey identify dupes they don't seem to realise I want to keep the original. ie they will be of the filnames
<song title>.mp3
<song title> 1.mp3
<song title> 2.mp3

Obviously it's the second 2 I want shot of. They all have the same creation date etc so the only way to do it manually is CTRL select which will take a while... (6000 duplicate files).

To list:

ls $(find /home/pete/Music -type f -name "*[0-9].mp3")

To delete:

rm $(find /home/pete/Music -type f -name "*[0-9].mp3")

Obviously replace /home/pete/Music with whatever your library path is.

If you're using windoze then you can download MSYS here - http://www.mingw.org/wiki/MSYS

Then open an MSYS shell and use the above commands.

Cheers,
Robin

Cheers Robin, it's actually on a Freenas box (dunno whose suggestion that was) but I access it through windows...

I'll try your suggestion tonight.

OK,

Assuming you can ssh login to the FreeNAS box (which is probably running BSD?) you should be able to run those commands as is ... I suggest you use the listing version first in case it selects files you don't want to delete.

If you want to run teamviewer on your PC we can connect through 'tinternet and I can show you what to do ...

Cheers,
Robin

robin wrote:OK,

Assuming you can ssh login to the FreeNAS box (which is probably running BSD?) you should be able to run those commands as is ... I suggest you use the listing version first in case it selects files you don't want to delete.

If you want to run teamviewer on your PC we can connect through 'tinternet and I can show you what to do ...

Cheers,
Robin

Thanks Robin I'll try and work it out myself first. Well me and The Google.

I knew that Computer Science O level would come in useful one day. 6 hours in and I think I've found the command line.
Oh.

It's crashed.

Maybe it's just working really hard.

It's working!

I think!

Argument list is too long apparently. But it's still a big step so I'm off for a bit of a celebratory lie down.

To list without hitting long argument list:

find /home/pete/Music -type f -name "*[0-9].mp3" | xargs ls

Or to remove:

find /home/pete/Music -type f -name "*[0-9].mp3" | xargs rm

Cheers,
Robin

That is an awful lot of duplicate porn files Pete.......

tut

tut wrote:That is an awful lot of duplicate porn files Pete.......

tut

I didn't know you'd done so much work. You're very talented.

robin wrote:To list without hitting long argument list:

find /home/pete/Music -type f -name "*[0-9].mp3" | xargs ls

Or to remove:

find /home/pete/Music -type f -name "*[0-9].mp3" | xargs rm

Cheers,
Robin

This command line stuff is fantastic. I mean I haven't actually got it to work yet but it is MUCH better than all that picture malarky.

What's not working? Cut and paste the screen and email it to me, if you like: robiniddon@gmail.com

Cheers,
Robin

Thanks for the help last night Sir.

All sorted now.