whatpix - Duplicate File Eliminator

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1.0 Introduction

   whatpix is a GPL Perl console application which finds duplicate
   files and optionally moves or removes them.

   Send comments, questions, suggestions, and bug reports to 
   gerard 'at' users.sourceforge.net.


2.0 Requirements

   whapix runs anywhere Perl runs.  You will need the following modules
   on your system, if they aren't there already:

       Getopt::Long
       Digest::MD5
       Digest::SHA1
       File::Copy


3.0 Getting Started

   Here is a set of steps to get whatpix up and running:

      1. Un-zip/un-tar the distribution.

      2. Decide which directory tree you wish to process.

      3. Change directory to the *parent* of that directory.

      4. Execute whatpix
          
          % whatpix -d <subdir>

         This will report all the duplicate files that were found.

         To remove files, use -e.

         To move files, use -r -rdir <dirname>.  That will move
         any duplicate files into the directory <dirname>.