TODO - add my notes, and scripts

(on Wikipedia)
http://netdial.caribe.net/~adrian2/fdupes.html
https://github.com/adrianlopezroche/fdupes

A program for identifying (and optionally deleting) duplicate files residing within specified directories.

An essential part of my toolkit, giving me detailed information on the tangled mess that are my archives.

• See also diff

• 2016-03-30 - 1.5.1, on Slackware 14.1
• 2016-03-26 - 1.5.1, on Lubuntu 14.04.4 LTS
• (date not recorded) fdupes on Windows, on Windows 10
• 2009-05-15 - 1.50-PR2 on PCLinuxOS 2007, updated 2009-04

• 2007-06-17 - 1.4.0 on (distribution not recorded, likely PCLinuxOS)

2016-03-30 - 1.5.1 ∞

I installed this with slpkg:

\slpkg  -s sbo  fdupes

(date not recorded) fdupes on Windows ∞

https://github.com/jbruchon/fdupes-jody/releases

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2016-03-26 - 1.5.1 ∞

I believe this was in Lubuntu's repository.

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(earlier) - (earlier alpha) ∞

Very nice program. Last updated June 2002 though. =/

I do remember that at some point I had compiled this myself, from an alpha. I had used this from before it had duplicate-deletion.

It doesn't do what I want, which is a cmp or kdiff3-like response. Tell me if the two directories have the same content!

2009-05-15 - 1.50-PR2 ∞

fdupes --recurse --delete path1/ path2/

Preserve the first file and delete any duplicates:

fdupes --recurse --delete --noprompt path1/ path2/

2007-06-17 - 1.4.0 ∞

• It would be cool if i could get it to automatically delete files:

  • auto-delete the file if it's in the source directory
  • auto-delete the file if it's in the target directory

• it would be nice if there were a way to have it only check the filenames first and only if the filename is the same would it check for the size or content within the files. To speed it up in some situations.