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How to safely move a file to another directory and remove duplicates

I want to move files from Downloads, Documents, Pictures, Music, et al to shared locations. This is for various reasons, including because I want to keep media in a central, shared place. I want to ...
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Ping a list of IP addresses and outputing duplicates

In Linux how can I ping a list of IP addresses (in a text file) and only output those that have duplicate ping replies?
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Copy website from RedHat to CentOS

We currently have our website and website's CMS hosted on a dedicated host which runs Red Hat. We want to remove Red Hat and install CentOS instead. My question: is there a straight forward way of ...
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Remove duplicate mp3 with different name, size, and hash

I have a massive music library (all mp3), but I some of the music is almost the same but: Maybe one or two second longer About 97% the same as another song Or another bitrate. Is there a way to ...
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Killing all the process of a command except first process

I am sometimes stuck in a situation where a script/command kept in Cron runs more than once because of some reasons (the first instance is not completed fully, the second instance of the same process ...
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Sort -u Function Command Not Working

As you can see in the picture attached screen shot After I used the sort command to sort a VERY large wordlist file I then split them up using the Split command. From there I confirmed that the ...
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How can I copy a file and create the target directories at the same time?

I want to cp aaa/deep/sea/blob.psd to bbb/deep/sea/blob.psd How do I do the copy if the deep and sea directories don't exist under bbb so that the copy both creates the directories that are needed ...
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Remove first instance of lines with duplicate field value

I have sha1 summed all the image files on my storage server and put the results in a text file in the form of: sha1sum filename I've sorted the file and removed all all unique sha1sum entries. So ...
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Do I have duplicate packages?

I'm on linux mint 12, when i run sudo apt-get update i see: W: Duplicate sources.list entry http://www.duinsoft.nl/pkg/ debs/all i386 Packages ...
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Remove duplicated Java packages

I'm on linux mint 12 I have installed Java, following the NetBeans instructions. It wasn't working on chrome, so I installed it like that: sudo echo 'deb http://www.duinsoft.nl/pkg debs all' ...
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Open source duplicate image finder for Linux?

Is there a Free and Open Source duplicate image finder for Linux based systems? Finding exact duplicates (based on content, not file name) is sufficient for me, but the ability to find similar images ...
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How to delete duplicates of files in directory and subdirs?

Is there any fast method to delete duplicates of files based on any hash sum (i.e. SHA1 to be fast). Because I've got some mess in my music files.
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case-insensitive search of duplicate file-names

I there a way to find all files in a directory with duplicate filenames, regardless of the casing (upper-case and/or lower-case)?
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Is there an easy way to replace duplicate files with hardlinks?

I'm looking for an easy way (a command or series of commands, probably involving find) to find duplicate files in two directories, and replace the files in one directory with hardlinks of the files in ...
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Duplicating a Linux installation (Yum-based)

Given an installation based on Yum (specifically in my case, a Scientific Linux 5.1 x86_64 installation), how would I duplicate the installed programs and utilities to a new machine based on Fedora ...