Linux is much pickier about names than Windows, for example. It is case sensitive for one thing and sometimes users replace spaces with underscores when they work in commandline for simplify things. Also Linux will append copy_1, copy_2, etc. to the file name if it is a duplicate file name rather than replace it. However, Linux does not care about suffixes, such as .mp3.
You have a few choices. You can use the commandline or you can install a program to weed out duplicate files. See: http://ubuntu.wordpress.com/2005/10/08/find-duplicate-copies-of-files/ and http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=647883 You can use a mp3 utility to rename files based on their metadata. You could use a filter in Nautilus (Search) to weed out duplicates if there is an obvious pattern such as a double space in the file name. It all depends on how you work and your willingness to leave it up to a program over doing it manually. Since you have so many then you probably want to go with fdupes as in the links above. Roy Linux: Fast, friendly, flexible and .... free! Support Open source. <*,)}}+< Only dead fish go with the flow! ----- Original Message ---- From: dr_ovalle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [email protected] Sent: Thursday, September 18, 2008 12:21:24 AM Subject: [LINUX_Newbies] diff Hi, I have a problem which, maybe I can solve with command line. Let's assume in folder A I have a song named: "Alicia Keys - No One.mp3" In folder B I have a song named: "Alicia Keys - No one.mp3" Both files have the same song, the same number of bytes, etc. They're identical, except for the name of the file. I have the same problem with maybe 100 more files. Each folder has almost 2000 songs. I want to copy all the files in folder A to a folder C, then, I want to copy all the files in folder B to C (and then upload C to my iPod), but I don't want to have the same song twice in my iPod I was looking in rute handbook, and it looks like the diff command compares between files. Maybe this is the command I was looking for, but I dont know how to use it, I went to the terminal, typed diff --help, and believe me, is really confuse, too many options and no idea how to use it. Do you think command line would save me this time to make all the process manually? Any ideas? __________________________________________________________________ Ask a question on any topic and get answers from real people. Go to Yahoo! Answers and share what you know at http://ca.answers.yahoo.com [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ------------------------------------ To unsubscribe from this list, please email [EMAIL PROTECTED] & you will be removed.Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/LINUX_Newbies/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/LINUX_Newbies/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
