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From: lwv@n8emr.UUCP (Larry W. Virden)
Newsgroups: comp.sources.wanted
Subject: Unique set of file names/inodes?
Message-ID: <822@n8emr.UUCP>
Date: 20 Feb 89 20:10:58 GMT
Reply-To: lwv@n8emr.UUCP (Larry W. Virden)
Organization: Ham BBS, 614-457-4227 (1200/2400/19.2 telebit,8N1)
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I want to take the output of a find dir -criteria_of_various_sort -print and
massage it into a smaller list of file names which have no overlap.  Files
which have 2 or more hard links would resolve into a single file name - files
with soft links would resolve into their hard link path name (before the
previous resolution takes place?).

Does anyone know of a program or easy set of filters to do this sort of thing?
I would think it would be quite useful if one does backups using tar or cpio
and didnt want duplication of various files - my use is for manipulating
these files via grep, etc after reduction of name space.

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