Essential System Tools: fdupes - find or delete duplicate files | Linux Today

Essential System Tools: fdupes – find or delete duplicate files

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Jan 6, 2019

fdupes finds duplicate files in a given set of directories and sub-directories. It recognizes duplicates by comparing MD5 signature of files followed by a byte-to-byte comparison. The utility offers a lot of options to list, delete and replace files.

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