In this tutorial, you are going to learn how to find and delete duplicate files in Linux using rdfind and fdupes command-line tools, as well as using GUI tools called DupeGuru and FSlint.Ī note of caution – always be careful what you delete on your system as this may lead to unwanted data loss.
This may cause your directories to become cluttered with all kinds of useless duplicated stuff. Often you may find you have downloaded the same mp3, pdf, epub (and all kind of other file extensions) and copied it to different directories. Will contain spaces.Organizing your home directory or even system can be particularly hard if you have the habit of downloading all kinds of stuff from the internet. Should also enclose placeholders in quotes because it’s very possible that paths to dupes and refs If the path to your executable contains space characters, you should enclose it in “” quotes. Selected dupe (%d) and the path of the selected dupe’s reference file (%r). These placeholders will be replaced by the path of the The format of the command is the same as what you would write in the command line, except that thereĪre 2 placeholders: %d and %r. This can be useful if,įor example, you have a nice diffing application installed. You can invoke any external application through this action. Custom Command: This preference determines the command that will be invoked by the “Invoke Custom Command”Īction. In all cases, dupeGuru nicely handles naming conflicts by prepending a number to the destinationįilename if the filename already exists in the destination. Users/foobar/MyDestination/Users/foobar/SomeFolder/SubFolder. For example, if you move /Users/foobar/SomeFolder/SubFolder/SomeFile.ext to theĭestination /Users/foobar/MyDestination, the final destination for the file will be Recreate absolute path: The source file’s path will be re-created in the destination folder in.Users/foobar/MyDestination/SubFolder ( SomeFolder has been trimmed from source’s path in Users/foobar/MyDestination, the final destination for the file will be Users/foobar/SomeFolder/SubFolder/SomeFile.ext to the destination Users/foobar/SomeFolder to your Directories panel and you move To the root selection in the Directories panel. Recreate relative path: The source file’s path will be re-created in the destination folder up.Trying to recreate the source path at all. Right in destination: All files will be sent directly in the selected destination, without.Copy and Move: Determines how the Copy and Move operations (in the Action menu) will behave. Remove empty folders after delete or move: When this option is enabled, folders are deleted after a file is deleted or moved and the folder Explaining them is beyond the scope of this document. (Only for OS X and Linux) Use regular expressions when filtering: If you check this box, the filtering feature will treat your filter query as a If they do, they will not be considered duplicates. You don’t check it, well, they aren’t! Ignore duplicates hardlinking to the same file: If this option is enabled, dupeGuru will verify duplicates to see if they refer to the same Can mix file kind: If you check this box, duplicate groups are allowed to have files with different extensions. The meaning of the threshold depends on the scanning type (see The scanning process). Filter Hardness: The threshold needed for two files to be considered duplicates. Match pictures of different dimensions: If you check this box, pictures of different dimensions will be allowed in the sameĭuplicate group. Match similar words: See Similarity matching. Preferences ¶ Tags to scan: When using the Tags scan type, you can select the tags that will be used for comparison.
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