It is a free tool used to find duplicate files across or within multiple directories. If you are using a new tool, first try it in a test directory where deleting files will not be a problem. In this tutorial, you are going to learn how to find and delete duplicate files in Linux using rdfind and fdupes command-line tools, as well as using GUI tools called DupeGuru and FSlint.Ī note of caution – always be careful what you delete on your system as this may lead to unwanted data loss. This may cause your directories to become cluttered with all kinds of useless duplicated stuff. 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. You can save results to dupeGuru’s own format, and/or export them to HTML and CSV formats.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. Once a scan is complete, dupeGuru shows a results pane which offers filtering, searching and a range of actions such as sending marked files to the wastebin, move or copy files, rename, and much more. A folder is duplicate to another if all files it contains have the same contents as the other folder’s file. It works like a normal contents scan, but instead of trying to find duplicate files, it tries to find duplicate folders.
The software supports 3 types of scanning types: All these sums are added up to a final “score”. Then the program compares them by examining each tile in the grid (an average color) which is compared to its corresponding grid on the other picture and a color diff is calculated. Each picture is opened in RGB bitmap mode, it’s then blockified by creating a 15×15 grid and computing the average color of each grid tile. This lets you find pictures that are similar, but not exactly the same. There’s also a picture mode that can perform fuzzy searches of pictures. It supports tags comparison and its results window has many audio-related informational columns. There’s a music mode that scans tags and shows music-specific information in the duplicate results windows. The standard mode is for any type of files but it doesn’t offer specialized features.
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