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fdupes
fdupes is a command-line utility for identifying and deleting duplicate files residing within one or more specified directories.
Setup
The fdupes program can be installed by going to the
github page of it.
Alternatively many linux package managers package fdupes in the fdupes
package.
Usage
Running fdupes <path to directory> find the duplicates inside the given
directory.
Using the -r flag the program will search in the subdirectories aswell.
-d signals to delete the duplicates and will force a dialogue to select which
version of the file to keep.
This dialogue can be skipped by using -N which will select the first file of
a set of multiple duplicates.
A complete and automatic removal of all duplicates within a directory and its
subdirectories works with the following command:
fdupes -rNd <path to directory>.