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Author Finding all the files in a PC
Andrew McHorney

2005-10-22, 6:55 pm

Hello

I am planning on developing a perl script that will find all the duplicate
files (name, size and content) on a pc and remove the duplicate files. I
have written a few scripts on a unix platform but non yet for a pc in a
windows environment. Can someone provide a basic stub that will find all
the files, the creation date and size and put them in a array. I want to
avoid putting the directories in the array.

This is because of various problems with a hard drive and putting files on
various removeable media disks.

Thanks,
Andrew


Wiggins d'Anconia

2005-10-22, 6:55 pm

Andrew McHorney wrote:
> Hello
>
> I am planning on developing a perl script that will find all the
> duplicate files (name, size and content) on a pc and remove the
> duplicate files. I have written a few scripts on a unix platform but non
> yet for a pc in a windows environment. Can someone provide a basic stub
> that will find all the files, the creation date and size and put them in
> a array. I want to avoid putting the directories in the array.
>
> This is because of various problems with a hard drive and putting files
> on various removeable media disks.
>
> Thanks,
> Andrew
>
>
>


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