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SaWeeeet! I think that this is exactly what I was looking for. Awesome idea - 
I would have never thought of plageriarism!  I ain't a programmer - and  
doubt if I will ever be coding Perl. I will update the list on how it goes.
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On Thursday 18 July 2002 12:59, you wrote:
> x3 writes:
> > I have 100 text files that are all about 100Kb in size. The data in the
> > files is supposed to be sequential - however, in my haste to backup the
> > files from a dying system, I copied repetitive data in some of them.
> > ... Anyone know of a program that can d00 this in Linux (or even Win)?
>
> To find and report common passages among many text files,
> try a plagiarism detector such as "copyfind" at:
>
>   http://plagiarism.phys.virginia.edu/home.html
>
> In the usual application the files are student writing or
> programming assignments, so they would tend to be shorter
> than your files; I am not sure whether this will become a
> performance issue.
>
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