[ale] Filed De-duplication

Adrya Stembridge adrya.stembridge at gmail.com
Fri Oct 18 14:09:47 EDT 2013


I use fdupes for identifying and removing duplicate files.

http://code.google.com/p/fdupes/



On Fri, Oct 18, 2013 at 1:24 PM, Derek Atkins <derek at ihtfp.com> wrote:

> Have you tried the "hardlink" utility?   man hardlink
>
> -derek
>
> On Fri, October 18, 2013 12:59 pm, JD wrote:
> > Slashdot had a question about this 1-2 yrs ago.  Lots of people suggested
> > scripting it, others pointed out some C code on sourceforge.
> >
> > I had a few hrs free that day and wrote some Perl (200+ LOC). Use it all
> > the
> > time, but I'd probably go with the C tool for any very large datasets.
> > Mine
> > doesn't automaticly remove anything and is far from perfect, that is
> > certain.
> > It is relatively fast on most types of files, however.
> >
> > On 10/18/2013 12:34 PM, Calvin Harrigan wrote:
> >> Good Afternoon,
> >>     I'm looking for a little advice/recommendation on file
> >> de-duplication
> >> software. I've have a disk filled with files that most certainly have
> >> duplicates.  What's the best way to get rid of the duplicates.  I'd like
> >> to
> >> check deeper than just file name/date/size.  If possible I'd like to
> >> check
> >> content (checksum?).  Are you aware of anything like that?  Linux or
> >> windows is
> >> fine.  Thanks
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