Comments on: fdupes – A Command Line Tool to Find and Delete Duplicate Files in Linux

By: Geoff

Geoff — Wed, 28 Dec 2022 09:00:40 +0000

fdupes: Supplied with the serious version of Linux I have (and I suppose others) and has numerous contributors, therefore very well tested. There are lots of forks (see GitHub), which may or may not introduce as many bugs as enhancements to these versions :)

Thanks to Tecmint for this page.

By: Awer

Awer — Wed, 04 May 2022 15:49:17 +0000

There are many special programs for removing duplicate files. I am using Manyprog Find Duplicate Files. It is very easy to use.

By: skyrail

skyrail — Sun, 31 May 2020 23:42:58 +0000

It might be a great option to tell preserve newer only when needed to mirror a directory structure while backing up a source to target with rsync and we have moved files in another folder on the source before a second backup.

By: Peter King

Peter King — Sun, 10 Feb 2019 19:56:29 +0000

I was always trying the best way to delete my duplicate files, but always something was piling the storage again. So I find efficient software (DuplicateFilesDeleter) to complete remove the duplicate data. I suggest it to anyone with this problem.

By: jm

jm — Sun, 06 Jan 2019 06:54:44 +0000

Great program! Wish it had a filter to exclude files under a certain size. I’m using this to clean up disc space, so its great if it would only report size > 1MB, etc.