Linux

Already a while ago I wrote a script, that tries to automatize most of the work involved in getting sequences from our ABI sequencer into a gap4 database. The script is far from perfect and looks like this:

!/bin/sh rm *.seq *.log Log\ file.txt for i in `ls *.ab1`; do echo "Renaming $i" mv $i `echo $i | sed "s/\(.\{27\}\).*/\1\.ab1/"` done ls *.ab1 *.txt > tracefile.list pregap4 -nowin -config /home/jeltsch/bin/pregap4_gap4.conf -fofn tracefile.list gap4 test.0.aux

• Make the changes how you want to window to appear.
• Right-click on title bar, click "Store Window Settings".
• Click "Settings" -> "Save View Profile" ->Select "File Management" from the list of available profiles -> "Save".
• Close the window and reopen it to see that your settings stick.

I was making order among my 50000+ files in my home directory and realized that I had multiple copies of the same file in different directories. Therefore I was looking for some convenient way to find those duplicates and to delete them.
There are several applications that do something like this. However, none is perfect. E.g. mp3 files of the same song, but with a different id3 tag will be recognized by most programs as being different, whereas they might be essentially the same apart from the metadata in the id3 tag.