For duplicates install fdupes
On Sun, Jan 3, 2016 at 5:49 PM, ray <r...@aarden.us> wrote: > I would like to better manage my files to manage duplications and versions. > > On Windows, I use a VBA module in Excel; execute in a specific directory > and it records all files along with the path, size, type, dates. On Debian > 8.2, an ls -al -R gives the data but the output prints a directory and all > the files under that directory. Capturing this as text list all the files > but the path is not recorded from each file. With so many directories, it > is not reasonable to edit this by hand. > > So I am wondering what would be some good methods for recording my file > system data so it may be used programmatically. I like doing this is a > spreadsheet as I can sort and filter, drag and copy, drag and iterate, and > programmatically build large scripts. > > As Linux has a lot of tools not available in Windows, I do not want to > limit solutions to spreadsheets and databases; I am open. > > Thanks in advance, > Ray > >
