sahib / rmlint

Extremely fast tool to remove duplicates and other lint from your filesystem
http://rmlint.rtfd.org
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look for zip archives that are "equivalent" wich real (extracted) directories #576

Open Dieterbe opened 2 years ago

Dieterbe commented 2 years ago

Hello, I have a bad habit of extracting downloaded zip files into a directory and forgetting to remove the zip files. sometimes i rename or move the extracted zip file elsewhere, so that it's no longer obvious whether or not a zip file can be removed (assuming i wanted the extracted data and not the original zip file) Would it be possible for rmlint to recognize "equivalence" between such extracted directories and archive files?

I know this is probably not trivial, and I would give this a shot myself if my C wasn't terrible. Perhaps I could sponsor such a feature or work on something else to compensate? (i'm good at Golang but not C/python)