[Cryptography] Just in case it isn't obvious...
Patrick Chkoreff
patrick at rayservers.net
Mon Feb 27 22:11:07 EST 2017
Tom Mitchell wrote on 02/27/2017 09:28 PM:
> Now I need to look under the hood at:
> fdupes - finds duplicate files in a given set of directories
>
> MD5 signatures seem OK for now.
> They do say...
> When using -d or --delete, care should be taken to insure against
> accidental data loss.
I think that's just a general note of caution. The man page does say this:
> Searches the given path for duplicate files. Such files are found by
> comparing file sizes and MD5 signatures, followed by a byte-by-byte
> comparison.
That sounds very efficient, but with no risk of a false positive.
By the way, thanks for the mention of fdupes, I had never heard of it
before. Nice.
-- Patrick
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