You may have some empty files in a directory and want to ignore them. To replace all duplicates with symlinks/soft links, run: $ rdfind -makesymlinks true ~/Downloads To replace all duplicates with hardlinks, run: $ rdfind -makehardlinks true ~/Downloads
Once you found the duplicates, you can replace them with either hardlinks or symlinks. You can remove the duplicates manually if you want to.Īlso, you can -dryrun option to find all duplicates in a given directory without changing anything and output the summary in your Terminal: $ rdfind -dryrun true ~/Downloads # duptype id depth size device inode priority nameĭUPTYPE_FIRST_OCCURRENCE 1469 8 9 2050 15864884 1 /home/sk/Downloads/tor-browser_en-US/Browser/TorBrowser/Tor/PluggableTransports/fte/tests/dfas/test5.regexĭUPTYPE_WITHIN_SAME_TREE -1469 8 9 2050 15864886 1 /home/sk/Downloads/tor-browser_en-US/Browser/TorBrowser/Tor/PluggableTransports/fte/tests/dfas/test6.regexĭUPTYPE_FIRST_OCCURRENCE 13 0 403635 2050 15740257 1 /home/sk/Downloads/Hyperledger(1).pdfĭUPTYPE_WITHIN_SAME_TREE -13 0 403635 2050 15741071 1 /home/sk/Downloads/Hyperledger.pdfīy reviewing the results.txt file, you can easily find the duplicates. You can view the name of the possible duplicate files in results.txt file. $ rdfind ~/DownloadsĪs you see in the above screenshot, Rdfind command will scan ~/Downloads directory and save the results in a file named results.txt in the current working directory. Once installed, simply run Rdfind command along with the directory path to scan for the duplicate files.
#DUPLICATE FILE FINDER LINUX INSTALL#
On RHEL, CentOS: $ sudo yum install epel-release $ sudo yum install rdfind
On Debian, Ubuntu, Linux Mint: $ sudo apt-get install rdfind So, you can install it in Arch-based systems using any AUR helper program like Yay as shown below. You can decide to either delete them or replace them with hard links or symbolic (soft) links. Once it found the duplicates, it will report them to you. If you have two or more equal files, Rdfind is smart enough to find which is original file, and consider the rest of the files as duplicates. Rdfind uses ranking algorithm to classify original and duplicate files. It compares files based on their content, not on their file names.
#DUPLICATE FILE FINDER LINUX FREE#
Rdfind, stands for redundant data find, is a free and open source utility to find duplicate files across and/or within directories and sub-directories. These three utilities are free, open source and works on most Unix-like operating systems.
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