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How to quickly find duplicated files on linux?

Just a quick direction to program -> fdupes
(on gentoo emerge fdupes -av)

fdupes -r movies_dir1 movies_dir2 > duplicates.txt

Above commands creates hashes of all files within specifies directories (-r recursive) and outputs that list to duplicates.txt. Now you can investigate that list and delete duplicates manualy.

You can also tell fdupes to delete files automatically or to be prompted.