Find duplicate files and create delete-file: Difference between revisions

From WickyWiki
No edit summary
m 12 revisions
 
(No difference)

Latest revision as of 07:25, 5 July 2013

Create duplicates list

Options:

  • -r recursive
    • Note: this can take considerable time
    • Note: with fdupes version 1.50-PR2 it seems that option "-r" with option "-n" will not recurse into folders that only contain a folder.
  • -n ignore empty files
  • -f ommit first occurrences
    • Note: the exact order is not quite clear, it will help to do dirs separately
  • -S show size
  • -d delete (prompted)
fdupes -r -n -f /home/user > fdupes_list.txt

Create delete-file

cat fdupes_list.txt | sed 's/\(^.*$\)/rm "\1"/g' > rm_dupes.sh
chmod u+x rm_dupes.sh

Or move them to trash:

cat fdupes_list.txt | sed 's/\(^.*$\)/mv "\1" ~\/\.local\/share\/Trash\/files/g' > move_dupes_to_trash.sh
chmod u+x move_dupes_to_trash.sh