Bug#632450: ITP: pmatch -- Duplicate finder and removal tool.

[Lars Wirzenius <liw@liw.fi>]

On Sat, Jul 02, 2011 at 11:27:36AM +0100, Tomasz Muras wrote:
> * Package name    : pmatch
>   Version         : 0.4.0
>   Upstream Author : Tomasz Muras <nexor1984@gmail.com>
> * URL             : http://pmatch.rubyforge.org
> * License         : GPL v3
>   Programming Lang: Ruby
>   Description     : Duplicate finder and removal tool.
> 
> Perfect Match (pmatch) is a command-line utility for finding duplicate files.
> It can perform some logic for choosing which duplicate to act on (delete, create
> a link or perform any other action).

We have a bunch of these in Debian already. For example:

* finddup
* finddup
* hardlink

How does pmatch compare to the others?

I wrote one myself (http://liw.fi/dupfiles/), but it turned out
hardlink is way faster, so decided not to add mine to Debian, since
it would be unnecessary duplication.

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