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NAME

md5_purge.pl - remove duplicated in a directory according to MD5 sums.

COPYRIGHT

Copyright (C) 2001, 2002 Mark Veltzer; All rights reserved.

LICENSE

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111, USA.

DETAILS

        MANIFEST: md5_purge.pl
        PROJECT: meta
        VERSION: 0.01

SYNOPSIS

        md5_purge.pl [options]

DESCRIPTION

Give this script a set of directories to work on and it will remove all duplicates in that directory.

This script provide two policies: 1. Ask the user on each set of duplicates on which to remove. You will be prompted on which of the duplicates you want to keep. Keep in mind that more than two duplicate files may exists and so more than one file may be erased at each interaction. 2. Remove the duplicate itself. The script will just remove all but the first instance of the duplicates group.

The default policy is to ask the user.

How does this script work ?

OPTIONS

help (type: bool, default: 0)

display help message

pod (type: bool, default: 0)

display pod options snipplet

man (type: bool, default: 0)

display manual page

quit (type: bool, default: 0)

quit without doing anything

gtk (type: bool, default: 0)

run a gtk ui to get the parameters

license (type: bool, default: 0)

show license and exit

show copyright and exit

description (type: bool, default: 0)

show description and exit

history (type: bool, default: 0)

show history and exit

verbose (type: bool, default: 1)

noisy or quiet ?

directories (type: dlst, default: .)

directory list to scan

interactive (type: bool, default: 1)

present menues for deletion ?

no free arguments are allowed

BUGS

None.

AUTHOR

        Name: Mark Veltzer
        Email: mailto:veltzer@cpan.org
        WWW: http://www.veltzer.org
        CPAN id: VELTZER

HISTORY

        0.00 MV more pdmt stuff
        0.01 MV md5 issues

SEE ALSO

Error(3), MIME::Base64(3), Meta::Development::Assert(3), Meta::Digest::Collection(3), Meta::Digest::MD5(3), Meta::Ds::Noset(3), Meta::Utils::File::Iterator(3), Meta::Utils::File::Remove(3), Meta::Utils::Opts::Opts(3), Meta::Utils::Output(3), Meta::Utils::System(3), Term::ReadKey(3), strict(3)

TODO

-implement getting more than one directory to recurse.