An efficient UNIX shell-script…

If you use lot of Unix shellscripts in the VI editor, then here’s an efficient UNIX shell-script to compare two files & delete one of them if they are duplicates… Simple yet pretty handy, just check-up!

if(test $# -eq 2)
then
if(test -f $1 && test -f $2)
then
if(cmp $1 $2)
then
echo “files are same”
echo “$2 deleted”
rm $2
else
echo “files are not same”
fi
else
echo “one of them is not a file”
fi
else
echo “MY COMMAND: enter two file names”
fi

Sounds pretty ordinary, but just check up is that really what you do as well?

And sure thing if have a better way then share it here :)

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