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Comment author: gwern 04 February 2014 11:03:15PM 2 points [-]

checks for duplicate files, sorting them by file size (fdupes doesn't do that; my script is pretty crude and not yet worth sharing)

How can identical files be sorted by file size?

Comment author: btrettel 04 February 2014 11:08:12PM 0 points [-]

My wording was unclear. I sort the list of duplicate files by file size, e.g., the list might be like 17159: file1, file2; 958: file3, file4. This is useful because I have a huge number of small duplicate files and I don't mind them too much.

Comment author: gwern 05 February 2014 01:36:23AM 1 point [-]

Ah. Well, you're right that it's not easy to do that... Might want to subscribe to the bug report so you know if anyone comes up with anything useful: http://code.google.com/p/fdupes/issues/detail?id=3

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