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How to Find Duplicate files in Linux? Help Is Here with the fdupes Command!

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Mar 5, 2021

Why should we look for duplicate files in Linux? No matter what operating system you use sooner or later, your computer will contain many files of different sizes, and if you’re not careful enough, repeating them can cost you disk space that you need. For example, you inadvertently downloaded the same ultra HD movie with 40 giga bytes twice.
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