diffing and uniqing directories

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On May 11, 2:44 pm, Dan Stromberg <dstrombergli... at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sat, 26 Apr 2008 23:44:17 +0530, Rustom Mody wrote:
> > Over years Ive collected tgz's of my directories. I would like to diff
> > and uniq them
>
> > Now I guess it would be quite simple to write a script that does a walk
> > or find through a pair of directory trees, makes a SHA1 of each file and
> > then sorts out the files whose SHA1s are the same/different. What is
> > more difficult for me to do is to write a visual/gui tool to help me do
> > this.
>
> > I would guess that someone in the python world must have already done it
> > [The alternative is to use some of the tools that come with version
> > control systems like git. But if I knew more about that option I would
> > not be stuck with tgzs in the first place ;-)]
>
> > So if there is such software known please let me know.
>
> > PS Also with the spam flood that has hit the python list I dont know if
> > this mail is being read at all or Ive fallen off the list!
>
> It doesn't have a GUI, but here's a python program I wrote for dividing
> large collections of files up into identical groups:
>
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I want to question terminology!

Question 'identical' groups over related!