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Hello,

The goal is to merge two directories of photos into one directory of photos and eliminate the duplicates.
There will be many duplicates during the merge.
Is there a batch merge program in Puppy that will auto-skip writing over the duplicate file?

I have found rmlint here.
http://murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=95233
Anyone have experience with this program?
Suggestions for other .pets?

Thank you in advance for your response.

The following does the opposite i.e it will overwrite

cd into folder of images.....

HI Sky Aisling.

I am not all that familiar with rsync, but I think it can do that. Maybe have a look
at the man or docs, or find a matching topic at the stackoverflow forum or similar.

Rsync skips identical files that already exist in the destination dir., which makes
it very fast as a back-up tool. E.g. the following command copies only new files
in the ramdisk to its back-up dir. :. means that you have to be in the actual ramdisk when you issue the command

-a means "preserve file attributes"

-v means verbose, i.e. "display the filenames as the files are copied" -- (I find that
I need this parameter, it is not just a whim; otherwise, I will not know which files
have been copied)

-z means "compress the flow of the copy at the origin and decompress it at the
destination" (for greater speed).

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But as I said, I don't know rsync all that well. Please explore it in more detail.

IHTH

don570 and musher0

Thank you! Got it!

My pleasure!