Tonight I worked on my Mac with my photo collection. I have a number of tar archives of photos. The only problem is that a number of the photos are duplicates. So I have been working on a script that walks a directory hierarchy and identifies files with
- same name but different content
- same content but different names
- same name and same content
It is making my head hurt.... I'm writing the script in PERL.
While trying to look for photos I made the mistake of "selecting all" in the Mac's finder and then double clicking on the selection. BUZZZZZZZZZ!!!!!!!! I thought the first click would just select a single item... but no, I ended up with about a bazillion finder windows. At first I thought my Mac had gone haywire. But then I realized.... ugh.... operator error. ;-)
I was surprised the Mac/Snow Leopard doesn't include the "md5sum" program. I know that it does include the "md5" program that provides some of the functionality of md5sum. I really like the "-c" or check option to md5sum. This is a feature that md5 does not include. I found an interesting article on building md5sum for the Mac. So now I have it. Building it requires you to have a compiler on your system.
