Find Duplicate Files on Linux With fdupes
- Posted On January 7, 2012
- Written By Masen Marshall
The time comes for every user when you’re faced with a directory full of duplicate files that needs to be cleaned.
Thankfully we have fdupes to solve this problem.
There is a slackbuild for the program as well as packages for many other distros available.
The basic usage consists of:
fdupes directoryname
Also useful are the -r and -R switches which both recurse through directories to find duplicates. There is also a -d switch to delete duplicates with prompting and a -N argument to suppress the prompting and just delete without asking.
That’s it, hopefully you find fdupes as useful as I have!