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Package request: fdupes #1031

Closed cmarcelo closed 5 years ago

cmarcelo commented 5 years ago

FDUPES is a program for identifying or deleting duplicate files residing within specified directories.

https://github.com/adrianlopezroche/fdupes

ahkok commented 5 years ago

We have already hardlink. Does this fit your need, or is fdupes significantly different?

thiagomacieira commented 5 years ago

We also have duperemove.

From the man pages, fdupes is more flexible in its search than hardlink, but is functionally the same. duperemove can work with intra-file extents for sharing on suitable filesystems (btrfs and xfs), and it can consume fdupes output, but it does not perform hardlinking.

cmarcelo commented 5 years ago

In my case I'll have a series of files, and want to keep only one copy of each content. Don't care about which of the duplicates is kept (if a, b and c have equal contents, I'm fine keeping any of them and removing the other two). It is the functionality provided by fdupes -d.

I couldn't find a similar option in neither hardlink and duperemove, but I might be missing something. The fact that duperemove has an option to read output from fdupes, maybe is another reason to pull the new package in :-)

I know how to write a script to get this done, is just that the tool seemed popular enough so I thought could be a good addition.

ahkok commented 5 years ago

Added. Will be a separate fdupes bundle.