fdupes
Sign in to savefdupes is a program written by Adrián López to scan directories for duplicate files, with options to list, delete or replace the files with hardlinks pointing to the duplicate. It first compares file sizes, partial MD5 signatures, full MD5 signatures, and then performs a byte-by-byte comparison for verification.
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It is catalogued under topics including Orphaned articles from May 2017, Software using the MIT license and Unix file system-related software.
Its subject is documented across 5 Wikipedia language editions.
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- programmed in
- C
- source code repository URL
- github.com/adrianlopezroche/fdupes
- operating system
- BSD
- software version identifier
- 2.4.0
- copyright license
- MIT License
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fdupes is a program written by Adrián López to scan directories for duplicate files, with options to list, delete or replace the files with hardlinks pointing to the duplicate. It first compares file sizes, partial MD5 signatures, full MD5 signatures, and then performs a byte-by-byte comparison for verification.
fdupes is written in C and is released under the MIT License.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “fdupes” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.