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Find duplicate executables files

Posted by Vivek Gite [Last updated: May 17, 2006]

Sometime duplicate executable files or alias creates tons of confusion. To find out duplicated executables files you can use chkdupexe command.

It will scan the union of $PATH and a hardcoded list of common locations for binaries. It will report dangling symlinks and duplicately-named binaries.

Examples

$ chkdupexe

Output:

Dangling symlink: /usr/bin/rmic
Dangling symlink: /usr/bin/jar
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root  38936 Sep 23  2004 /usr/bin/nsupdate
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 203960 Jan 26  2005 /usr/sbin/nsupdate
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root  15139 Apr  6 01:48 /sbin/grub-install
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root   6453 Apr  1 18:38 /usr/sbin/grub-install

As you see, it is quite easy to identify all those duplicates executables files. There is also some good discussion going on about PATH and aliases.

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Discussion on This Article:

  1. stereonerd Says:

    Excuse me, does ‘hkdupexe’ command exist in GNU/Linux? I doesn’t seem to find it.

    Thanks

  2. stereonerd Says:

    oh, sorry for my poor english, I mean: I don’t seem to find it.

    Regards

  3. n00b_Programmer Says:

    Command name is chkdupexe and not hkdupexe. It was typo :(

    Sorry, and post is updated for accuracy.

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