Finding duplicate files by content across multiple directories

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Published on 2010-03-08T03:52:24Z Indexed on 2010/03/08 4:21 UTC
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I have downloaded some files from the internet related to a particular topic. Now I wish to check if the files have any duplicates. The issue is that the names of the files would be different, but the content may match.

Is there any way to implement some code, which will iterate through the multiple folders and inform which of the files are duplicates?

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