DIY: Find Duplicate Files in System
Explore how to identify groups of duplicate files within a file system based on their content. This lesson guides you through parsing directory paths, extracting file information, and returning all file paths with matching content. You'll develop skills to handle real-world data structures and solve common coding interview challenges related to file duplicates.
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Problem statement
Suppose you are given a list, paths, of directory information, including the directory path and all the files with contents in this directory. Your task is to return a list where each element is the path of all the files in the file system that have the same content.
Note: You can return the final answer in any order. At least two files that have the same content are considered to be a group of duplicate files.
A single directory information string in paths has the following ...