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adrianlopezroche / fdupes

FDUPES is a program for identifying or deleting duplicate files residing within specified directories.
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directory path matters for fdupes? #106

Closed sheikhness closed 6 years ago

sheikhness commented 6 years ago

I encounter strange unexpected behaviour : host:~/scripts$ fdupes /data2/reclaim4mxp/uploads/upload-10-05-18-06-00-AB_Q1_18.csv_uploaded-on-10-05-18/4466 /data2/reclaim4mxp/uploads/upload-10-05-18-06-00-AB_Q1_18.csv_uploaded-on-10-05-18/4466/uploaded_31396892_BE11_2918896.msg_map_0a3d279a-be2f-4baa-b63b-eecca30aaf9a.png_4466_OREPID_1218-23209_.png /data2/reclaim4mxp/uploads/upload-10-05-18-06-00-AB_Q1_18.csv_uploaded-on-10-05-18/4466/uploaded_31484058_BE11_2918896.msg_map_0a3d279a-be2f-4baa-b63b-eecca30aaf9a.png_4466_OREPID_1218-23209_.png only 1 duplicate set is found host:~/scripts$mkdir /data2/temp4dups/ create a new dir for comparison host:~/scripts$ cp /data2/reclaim4mxp/uploads/upload-10-05-18-06-00-AB_Q1_18.csv_uploaded-on-10-05-18/4466/* /data2/temp4dups/ copy all files to /data2/temp4dups/ folder host:~/scripts$ fdupes -m /data2/temp4dups/ 106 duplicate files (in 86 sets), occupying 35.2 megabytes 86 sets of duplicate is found in the same set of files

sheikhness commented 6 years ago

Solved - need to use -H switch as files in the original folder are hardlinked.