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rdfind — Find files with duplicate content and get rid of them. More information: <https://rdfind.pauldreik.s

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Problem

How to use the rdfind command: Find files with duplicate content and get rid of them. More information: <https://rdfind.pauldreik.se/rdfind.1.html>.

Solution

rdfind — Find files with duplicate content and get rid of them. More information: <https://rdfind.pauldreik.se/rdfind.1.html>.

Identify all duplicates in a given directory and output a summary:

rdfind -dryrun true {{path/to/directory}}

Replace all duplicates with hardlinks:

rdfind -makehardlinks true {{path/to/directory}}

Replace all duplicates with symlinks/soft links:

rdfind -makesymlinks true {{path/to/directory}}

Delete all duplicates and do not ignore empty files:

rdfind -deleteduplicates true -ignoreempty false {{path/to/directory}}

Code Snippets

Identify all duplicates in a given directory and output a summary

rdfind -dryrun true {{path/to/directory}}

Replace all duplicates with hardlinks

rdfind -makehardlinks true {{path/to/directory}}

Replace all duplicates with symlinks/soft links

rdfind -makesymlinks true {{path/to/directory}}

Delete all duplicates and do not ignore empty files

rdfind -deleteduplicates true -ignoreempty false {{path/to/directory}}

Context

tldr-pages: common/rdfind

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