This roundup focuses on free and open source command-line tools that help you find and remove duplicate files.
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Tag: duplicate files
duple finds and removes duplicate files
duple will iterate through all files and directories that is given and find duplicate files (files are compared on their contents).
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backdown – a deduplicator
Backdown helps you safely and ergonomically remove duplicate files. This is a command-line tool written in Rust.
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6 Best Free GUI Tools to Find and Delete Duplicate Files
We feature free and open source software that lets you find and remove the duplicate files.
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ddh – fast duplicate file finder
ddh (the Directory Differential hTool) traverses input directories and their subdirectories.
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sdupes – fast duplicate file detection
sdupes is a command-line fast duplicate file detection utility. It’s written in C.
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rmdupes – find and remove duplicate files
rmdupes is a command-line utility to scan a directory for duplicate files and remove them.
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dupefi – duplicate file finder
dupefi is a command-line duplicate file finder designed with Linux philosophy.
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fclones – efficient duplicate file finder and remover
fclones is an efficient duplicate file finder and remover. It’s written in Rust.
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fclones-gui – interactive duplicate file finder and remover
fclones-gui is a graphical user interface for fclones, a command line utility that identifies groups of identical files
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smash – find duplicate files super fast
smash is a CLI tool to smash through to find duplicate files efficiently.
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DUDE – GUI utility for finding duplicated files
DUDE (DUplicates DEtector) is a GUI utility for finding duplicated files, delete or link them to save space.
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duff – command-line utility for finding duplicate files
duff is a command-line utility for identifying duplicates in a given set of files
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samanlainen – delete duplicate files
samanlainen is a CLI tool that deletes duplicate files. It’s written in the Rust programming language and published under the Apache license.
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rmlint – fast tool to remove duplicates and other lint
rmlint finds space waste and other broken things on your filesystem and offers to remove it.
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jdupes – powerful duplicate file finder and enhanced fork of fdupes
jdupes is a powerful duplicate file finder and an enhanced fork of ‘fdupes’.
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FSlint – duplicate file finder
FSlint is a utility to find and clean various forms of unwanted extraneous files on a computer file system.
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rdfind – redundant data find
rdfind is a program that finds duplicate files. It is useful for compressing backup directories or just finding duplicate files.
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Essential System Tools: Czkawka – data cleaner
Czkawka is a free and open source multi functional program to find duplicates, empty folders, similar images, and more.
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Essential System Tools: fdupes – find or delete duplicate files
fdupes finds duplicate files in the given set of directories and sub-directories. It recognizes duplicates by comparing MD5 signature of files followed by a byte-to-byte comparison. The utility offers a lot of options to list, delete and replace files.
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