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- Garbage Man V1.0
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- Garbage Man (referred to as GMan) is a short utility designed
- to make hard disk management easier by reducing clutter. What it does
- is search for multiple copies of the same file on a disk, reporting any
- duplicate files found and what sub-directories the duplicates are in.
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- The syntax of GMan is:
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- GMan <path> [SIZE] [CASE]
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- To search a disk (or partition, or logical assign, dir, etc.) called 'Work:',
- you would issue the command 'GMan Work:' at a CLI/Shell prompt. GMan
- will then search every sub-directory in 'Work:' and list any files that
- appear in more than one directory.
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- By default, GMan is not case sensitive and ignores the size of the files
- when looking for duplicates. This means that if there are two files
- named 'DIR' and 'dir', GMan will consider them to be duplicates.
- Likewise, if there are two files named 'list' (574 bytes) and 'list'
- (9214) bytes, GMan will also consider them to be duplicates.
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- But wait- GMan has two optional parameters that let you change the way
- it handles file duplicates. If you add the parameter 'CASE' to the
- end of the 'GMan' command line, GMan will treat 'DIR' and 'dir' as
- DIFFERENT. Likewise, if you add the paramter 'SIZE' to the end of the
- 'GMan' command line, GMan will consider the file 'list' (574 bytes) and
- the file 'list' (9214 bytes) to be DIFFERENT. And yes Virginia, you can
- use both 'CASE' and 'SIZE' together. Note also that only the first
- letter of each option need be used ('S' or 'C', not case sensitive).
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- If you forget the syntax and lose this file, just type 'GMan' and a
- brief summary will appear.
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- Note: GMan works by building a list of all unique file names in memory. If
- you don't have enough free memory to build such a list, GMan will abort
- and tell you so.
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- A future version of this program will optionally do a compare on the two
- files in question and replace the second one with a hard link should they
- prove to be identical. If you know what a hard link is you can probably
- guess when this feature will be added.
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- This program is copyrighted and NOT in the public domain, but permission
- is hereby granted for unlimited non-commercial distribution provided this
- text file accompanies the program. Permission is also granted for
- distribution on both BIX and PeopleLink as well as inclusion in the Fred
- Fish library. Bug reports, questions, suggestions, and FREE STUFF (NO pirated
- software please) can be sent to:
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- Erik C. Quackenbush
- Lake Forest Logic Inc.
- 28101 Ballard Rd. Unit E
- Lake Forest, IL 60045
- (708)816-6666x
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- BBS: (708)680-0590 (SYSOP)
- BIX: equack
- PLink: equack
- NET: equack@dcibix.das.net
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