diff files comparing only first n characters of each line

Question

I have got 2 files. Let us call them md5s1.txt and md5s2.txt. Both contain the output of a

find -type f -print0 | xargs -0 md5sum | sort > md5s.txt
         


        

Answer 1

If you are looking for duplicate files fdupes can do this for you:

$ fdupes --recurse

On ubuntu you can install it by doing

$ apt-get install fdupes