duplicate entries in directories

Andy Knipp

I saw this before. It just happened again on a new server, Solaris 2.8, TS 552 SP4,
it has happened only in /templatedata. where a directory (under templatedata) has duplicate entries for all files, same attributes, etc.

It may be related to a new import of content (OD in). Because the 2 times I have seen it were on
fairly new servers with lots of imported content. Fixing it is easy, create a new file in the directory
(vi .../hithere) & then delete it & everything is where it should be.

This is not visible through the GUI, so I suspect IW knows it can happen & hides it from the GUI,
but it is visible at the unix level.

I found it with a complex find command. I have written up a script to search for it:

run this command:

find /iwmnt/default/main/branch/subbranch/WORKAREA/workarea/templatedata -type f -print > out.txt

sort out.txt > sorted.txt

./filter.ipl sorted.txt

filter.ipl:
#!/iw-home/iw-perl/bin/iwperl

$file= $ARGV[0] ;

die ("\n Usage $0 file") if (! $file);

open (DATA, "$file") || die ("Cannot open $file");

my @lines = <DATA> ;
$oldline="";
foreach $line (@lines) {
if (($line =~ $oldline) && ($oldline =~ $line)) {print "dup at $line\n"}
$oldline=$line;
}