Re: Specialized disk directory tools

[Dan Ritter <dsr@randomstring.org>]

Lister wrote: 
> On 12/9/2025 19:38, Richard Owlett wrote:
> > While searching my disk for a one PDF I discovered I had:
> >   1. multiple copies of that file.
> >   2. copies of similarly named files I was preparing to download.
> 
> If you're looking for duplicate (content) files that may have different
> filenames, you need fclones
> 
> https://github.com/pkolaczk/fclones

Packaged in Debian stable:

czkawka-cli/stable 8.0.0-2 amd64
  Multi functional app to find duplicates, empty folders, similar images etc 

czkawka-gui/stable 8.0.0-2 amd64
  Multi functional app to find duplicates, empty folders, similar images etc

duff/stable 0.5.2-2 amd64
  Duplicate file finder

dupeguru/stable 4.3.1-4+b2 amd64
  GUI tool to find duplicate files in a system

fdupes/stable 1:2.3.2-1 amd64
  identifies duplicate files within given directories

findimagedupes/stable 2.20.1-3+b3 amd64
  Finds visually similar or duplicate images

jdupes/stable 1.28.0-1 amd64
  identify and delete or link duplicate files

rdfind/stable 1.6.0-1+b1 amd64
  find duplicate files utility

simhash/stable 0.0.20161225-2 amd64
  generate similarity hashes to find nearly duplicate files


Of these I have used rdfind; it works.

-dsr-