Multiple copies of the same song

I have had to change the location of some song files and put them into itunes again. this means that itunes lists the song title twice... one with the exclamation mark stating that the file can no longer be found.
I know that there is the option for showing "duplicate" songs... is there anyway to ask the computer to delete them in one swoop without having to individually go through and delete them???

There is no way to delet all duplicates in one "Swoop" in iTunes, But there are scripts out there that will do this in iTunes. I Recommed going to otto42's site and downloading there Quickscripts, this is a colletion of scripts. once installed/run you will hit the button "Remove dead tracks". here the link http://ottodestruct.com/blog/2006/01/

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