fdupes is a program for identifying/deleting duplicate files residing within specified directories.

How I typically use it to find duplicate files
fdupes -r -n -1 -S /path/of/directory/to/search/for/dups

How I typically use it to delete duplicate files. It will prompt you for which file to delete. You can preserve multiple files by using a comma separated list of values. See documentation for caveats.
fdupes -r -n -1 -S -d /path/of/directory/to/search/for/dups

Reference
http://linux.die.net/man/1/fdupes
http://netdial.caribe.net/~adrian2/fdupes.html

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