[Apex Archive] eliminating duplicates to save on storage

[snake-biscuits]

Doing some bash script trickery to eliminate duplicate files
SHA256 hashes will be dumped into the same file w/ sha256sum

Where seasonX/DDmmYY is a release (e.g. season0/4feb19)

$ cd /mnt/e/Mod/ApexLegends/seasonX/DDmmmYY/
$ find -type f \( -name "*.bsp" -o -name "*.ent" -o -name "*.bsp_lump" \) -exec sha256sum -b {} \; > hashes.sha256

Use *.bsp_lump.client instead of *.bsp_lump for season 18 onwards

\( & \) ensure patterns are OR'd

TODO: turn into a bash function and feed it a list of directories

I could do separate files to use sha256sum -c
But since everything is getting hashes I'll compare the hashes w/ python

Once duplicates have been identified I'll turn them into symlinks (mklink on Windows)

[snake-biscuits]

automating deletion and symlinks might take a while
I also want to be careful I don't accidentally delete non-duplicates, so I'd like to avoid rm