#fdupes

you get on one of your Linux Boxes to run fdupes over the course of a day on your external hard drive only to discover you had over 400, almost 500 GB of dupes on it, for about 100 to 150 GB of data.

I kid you not, this just happened. I’ve been saying my files were a mess, but DAMN! Now I know why I couldn’t find half my files half the time.

For those who don’t know, fdupes is a program that checks for duplicate files that are 100% identical in all ways but name. Add a few options, and you can have it print them to a file, print them to the screen, delete those duplicate files, do all that recursively (through out the subtrees)... you can do a lot with anything using a Bash Command Line - which is now available on Windows as well as Linux. Do a search called Bash for Windows 10. It’s through a partnership between Microsoft and the creators of Ubuntu - a Debian based flavor.

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finds duplicate files in a given set of directories

fdupes is a command/utility to find duplicates and…

brew install fdupes fdupes -r . fdupes -r . finds duplicate files recursively under the current directory. Add -d to be prompted which files to keep, or add -dN to always keep the first file and delete other files.

The formula for fdupes was recently updated to version 1.40.

To install fdupes on your Mac, open your Terminal application and run the following commands;

brew update brew install fdupes

 The updated formula is as follows:

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require 'formula' class Fdupes < Formula url 'http://fdupes.googlecode.com/files/fdupes-1.40.tar.gz' homepage 'http://code.google.com/p/fdupes/' md5 '11de9ab4466089b6acbb62816b30b189' def install inreplace "Makefile", "gcc", "#{ENV.cc} #{ENV.cflags}" system "make fdupes" bin.install "fdupes" man1.install "fdupes.1" end end

Currently fdupes has no dependencies in homebrew.