Comments on: Locate duplicate files under Ubuntu (And some ranting) http://h3x.no/2009/11/21/locate-dublicate-files-under-ubuntu-and-some-ranting Tor Henning Ueland`s thoughts about technology and other stuff Wed, 28 Jul 2010 21:28:55 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: si-m1 http://h3x.no/2009/11/21/locate-dublicate-files-under-ubuntu-and-some-ranting/comment-page-1#comment-288 si-m1 Tue, 15 Dec 2009 17:50:02 +0000 http://www.h3x.no/?p=119#comment-288 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 ;-) 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 ;-)

]]> By: Ueland http://h3x.no/2009/11/21/locate-dublicate-files-under-ubuntu-and-some-ranting/comment-page-1#comment-209 Ueland Sat, 21 Nov 2009 20:21:06 +0000 http://www.h3x.no/?p=119#comment-209 Gosh, very good point! Updated the post with some new rating instead ;) Gosh, very good point!

Updated the post with some new rating instead ;)

]]> By: pej http://h3x.no/2009/11/21/locate-dublicate-files-under-ubuntu-and-some-ranting/comment-page-1#comment-208 pej Sat, 21 Nov 2009 15:46:07 +0000 http://www.h3x.no/?p=119#comment-208 Part of the reason why might be because it's spelled 'dupli', not 'dubli'. ;) Part of the reason why might be because it’s spelled ‘dupli’, not ‘dubli’. ;)

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