How to Find duplicate copies of files Using fdupes in Ubuntu

Oct 17, 2008, 19:03 (0 Talkback[s])

[ Thanks to dave for this link. ]

"Fdupes Examples

1) fdupes -r ./stuff > dupes.txt

Then, deleting the duplicates was as easy as checking dupes.txt and deleting the offending directories. fdupes also can prompt you to delete the duplicates as you go along."

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