NAME
finddup - Find identical files and do something with them
SYNOPSIS
Usage:
finddup [options...]
--man the manpage
-h, --help
a short help
--version
the version (CVS) of the program
-n, --noaction
do just nothing, just print out (implies -v)
-v, --verbose
just what the name says
-q, --quiet
be quiet
-l, --link
link the identical files together
-o, --oldresult
Use the old output of this script
-i, --ignore-perms
Don’t check that file owner and permissions match
-d, --dir
Define the dir to check (you may specify more than one)
DESCRIPTION
finddup search the working directory and all files below on the same
partition for duplicate files.
finddup can optional hardlink such files to save space.
Files size 0 will not be reported or hardlinked as this might give
problemes later.
This is a complete rewrite of the finddup in perl to handle several
issues:
- Allow spaces and other characters in filenames
- be faster
- include nodup in same script
- Handle files that already have other hardlinks in the same tree
- Several improvements
If started as nodup or nodup.pl the script will act like started with
options --link and --oldresult
COPYRIGHT
Copyright (c) 2005 by Klaus Ethgen. All rights reserved.
LICENSE
This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the
Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your
option) any later version.
This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but
WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU
General Public License for more details.
You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along
with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc.,
675 Mass Ave, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA.
AUTHOR
Klaus Ethgen <Klaus@Ethgen.de<gt>
HISTORY
$Log: finddup,v $ Revision 2.3 2005/02/06 18:57:42 klaus * Make
--oldresult faster by not calculating the md5sum again * Fix a but that
with --oldresult no links will be done cause the internal
datastructure * Do handle errors in open for md5sum calculation
Revision 2.2 2005/02/06 12:21:02 klaus Little but important bug in
link routine.
Revision 2.1 2005/02/05 18:43:11 klaus Just cosmetic
Revision 2.0 2005/02/05 18:41:20 klaus Completely new version