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NAME

lncopies - Replace duplicate files with hard links

SYNOPSIS

lncopies [options] [dir1 dir2 ...]

 Options:

    -help          see this summary
    -man           view man page for lncopies
    -v             verbose mode

DESCRIPTION

Given a number of directories that are (partial) copies of each other replace files that are shared between them with hard links to a single file.

No attempt is made to verify that the files' contents match. The most recently modified file is chosen as the version to be linked to.

EXAMPLES

    # Make sure that files shared between cpan and backpan mirrors are
    # hard links to a single file.
    lncopies /usr/share/cpan /usr/share/backpan

AUTHOR

Andy Armstrong <andy@hexten.net>

LICENCE AND COPYRIGHT

Copyright (c) 2007, Andy Armstrong <andy@hexten.net>. All rights reserved.

This module is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself. See perlartistic.

DISCLAIMER OF WARRANTY

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