[SOLVED] Duplicate picutes

smithy2010 · 02-13-2012, 03:37 PM

Hello all,

I have 2 folders with about 300 pictures in each folder. In both folders there are many pictures that have exactly the same name but actually are different pictures. So far I figure out that if I run fdupes -r command I will be able to list duplicate file names into the file. Now I need to rename all duplicates, maybe moved them to the new folder after I rename them. I was wondering if someone could help with advice on how to do the above?

So far this is what I have in the scripts:

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cd /home/denis/Pictures/

fdupes -r >> /home/denis/Logs/duplicates.txt

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In the output file I have entries like this

/home/denis/Pictures/101MEDIA/IMAG0037.jpg
/home/denis/Pictures/100MEDIA/IMAG0037.jpg

/home/denis/Pictures/101MEDIA/IMAG0113.jpg
/home/denis/Pictures/100MEDIA/IMAG0113.jpg

/home/denis/Pictures/101MEDIA/IMAG0175.jpg
/home/denis/Pictures/100MEDIA/IMAG0175.jpg

and I have about 150 lines like this separated by empty line after every second entry.

Is there a way to run rename command to look into the log file and then to go to the folder and rename every file listed in the second line?

Or any other better solution?

Thank you in advance

smithy2012

cbtshare · 02-13-2012, 09:08 PM

you can use this script I wrote to help you out.It will still leave the duplicates in the original file which you can remove with a oneliner

Quote:

sort file-name | uniq -u

Code:

#!/bin/bash

FILE=testData.txt


sed -n 'n;p;'< "$FILE" >test2Data.txt
sed '/^$/d'<test2Data.txt>test3Data.txt

cat test3Data.txt |
while read ch ;
do
BEGINNING=$(echo $ch | cut -d "." -f 1)

echo "$BEGINNING{.DUP}.jpg"
done

grail · 02-13-2012, 10:27 PM

You seemed to have provided all data except what you would like to rename the duplicates to? As they are pictures of different things I am guessing adding something like DUP, as suggested
above, will not be much further along than where you are currently?

smithy2010 · 02-15-2012, 11:07 AM

Hi,

Thank you for your reply, unfortunately I am still not able to rename duplicate files. Your scripts creates additional file and echo list of files on screen however not one file is renamed.
Iam not too much bothered to what to rename the duplicate, prehaps to add one more number or letter at the end of the file name would do the trick.

Cheers

D

smithy2010 · 02-15-2012, 01:11 PM

I found software called krename and it did exactely what I wanted, great stuff

:-)

Cheers