2 Useful Tools to Find and Delete Duplicate Files in Linux | Linux Today

2 Useful Tools to Find and Delete Duplicate Files in Linux

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Marin Todorov
Nov 1, 2018

Tecmint: Organizing your home directory or even system can be particularly hard if you have the habit of downloading all kinds of stuff from the internet. Often you may find you have downloaded the same mp3, pdf, epub (and all kind of other file extensions) and copied it to different directories. This may cause your directories to become cluttered with all kinds of useless duplicated stuff.

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Marin Todorov

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