Last Updated or created 2022-12-28
A simple script to locate files and select which to delete.
Uses md5sum to compare
(just be sure locatedb is up to date!)
./locatemd5 VID_20130926_211302.mp4 1 : 125a65e830c1f3654714daa0f8a41699 /tank/Backup/Nae Bother Drive/Movies/VID_20130926_211302.mp4 2 : 125a65e830c1f3654714daa0f8a41699 /tank/Backup/rclonegdrive/Nae Bother Drive/Movies/VID_20130926_211302.mp4 3 : 125a65e830c1f3654714daa0f8a41699 /tank/Private/Henri/_All online drives/Google Drive Henri/Nae Bother Drive/Movies/VID_20130926_211302.mp4 4 : 125a65e830c1f3654714daa0f8a41699 /tank/Private/gfx/Gsm/GSM Henri/nexus/2013/20130926/VID_20130926_211302.mp4 5 : 125a65e830c1f3654714daa0f8a41699 /tank/Private/Work Directory/Sorted/movies/own/VID_20130926_211302.mp4 6 : 82cd340b2b54d3ef65a02c8f31b04970 /tank/Private/www/cutshort/VID_20130926_211302.mp4 ---------- which to delete --------------- 1 2 3 5 delete 1 /tank/Backup/Nae Bother Drive/Movies/VID_20130926_211302.mp4 rm: remove regular file '/tank/Backup/Nae Bother Drive/Movies/VID_20130926_211302.mp4'? y delete 2 /tank/Backup/rclonegdrive/Nae Bother Drive/Movies/VID_20130926_211302.mp4 rm: remove regular file '/tank/Backup/rclonegdrive/Nae Bother Drive/Movies/VID_20130926_211302.mp4'? y delete 3 /tank/Private/Henri/_All online drives/Google Drive Henri/Nae Bother Drive/Movies/VID_20130926_211302.mp4 rm: remove regular file '/tank/Private/Henri/_All online drives/Google Drive Henri/Nae Bother Drive/Movies/VID_20130926_211302.mp4'? y delete 5 /tank/Private/Work Directory/Sorted/movies/own/VID_20130926_211302.mp4 rm: remove regular file '/tank/Private/Work Directory/Sorted/movies/own/VID_20130926_211302.mp4'? y
Bash Script
#!/bin/bash
# below gets array from subshell
shopt -s lastpipe
nr=1
locate "$1" | while read file ; do
md5sum=$(md5sum "$file")
echo "$nr : $md5sum"
myArray[$nr]="$file"
(( nr++ ))
done
echo "---------- which to delete ---------------"
read numbers
for f in $numbers ; do
echo "delete $f ${myArray[$f]}"
rm -i "${myArray[$f]}"
done