A tiny file comparison program written in Go
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Re: A tiny file comparison program written in Go
#2I made a similar utility a while back to help trim down my family photos library that had many duplicates [0]. I took the approach of a dry-run option and an option to go ahead and delete duplicate files too. It also traverses the folder recursively, to get all files in a tree.
Re: A tiny file comparison program written in Go
#3 log.Print("Missing argument for files direcory, Exiting...")
os.Exit(0)
filePath + "/" + file.Name()
Don't use defer f.Close() in the loop — defer will execute after the function returns. What you're doing is opening all of the files in the directory and then closing them only when the program exists.
if file.IsDir() == false {
if !file.IsDir() {
Re: A tiny file comparison program written in Go
#4log.Print("Missing argument for files direcory, Exiting...") os.Exit(0) Exit code 0 is usually used for success. This is clearly an error. filePath + "/" + file.Name() There's path/filepath module for cross-platform joining of file paths. Don't use defer f.Close() in the loop — defer will execute after the function returns. What you're doing is opening all of the files in the directory and then closing them only when…
Did some refactoring :) thanks for noticing ...
It's now far more efficient from a small test I've did
Re: A tiny file comparison program written in Go
#5Did a complete refactor to do it more efficiently