Locate duplicate files under Ubuntu (And some ranting)
Edit: Post updated due to obvious user error 
Looking for a program to find dublicate files? Then fdupe saves the day!
root@bais:/home/samba/raid0# apt-cache search fdupe
fdupes – identifies duplicate files within given directories
By the way, how come the apt search gives to random results?
torhenning@bais:~$ sudo apt-cache search duplicate
….
mirror – keeps FTP archives up-to-date
vlc – multimedia player and streamer
(and a lot of other irrelevant crap)
Can`t exactly say that having to grep in a search results is a good “feature”..
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Part of the reason why might be because it’s spelled ‘dupli’, not ‘dubli’.
pej
21 Nov 09 at 16:46
Gosh, very good point!
Updated the post with some new rating instead
Ueland
21 Nov 09 at 21:21
Might be because it searches descriptions by default:
$ apt-cache show mirror | grep duplicate
Mirror uses the FTP protocol to locally duplicate remote host files and
And btw. since this is old quality software it has ofc. a documented parameter to only search names:
–names-only, -n
Only search on the package names, not the long descriptions.
Configuration Item: APT::Cache::NamesOnly.
I will leave you with a quick RTFM
si-m1
15 Dec 09 at 18:50