Before getting started, a proceeding note of caution: the file-deduplicator.sh script deletes duplicate files in the directory it is targeted at.
- Getting started (especially using the dsetmkr.sh script), we will produce a directory called files_galore that also contains several files: four are unique and three contain duplicate content:
$ bash dsetmkr.sh
The study of cryptography, security, and mathematics are all very interesting and broad information domains! Hashes have a multitude of other uses such as integrity checking of files, lookup values to find data quickly, unique identifiers, and much more.
- When you run file-deduplicator.sh, it begins by asking the user for input using read and then it prints out four different ...