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fdupes

FDUPES is a program for identifying or deleting duplicate files residing within specified...

Rdfind

Rdfind is a program that finds duplicate files.
  • fdupes Landing page
    Landing page //
    2019-02-26
  • Rdfind Landing page
    Landing page //
    2019-08-04

fdupes

Categories
  • Hard Disk Usage
  • Hard Disk Management
  • Hard Drive Tools
  • File Management
Website premium.caribe.net  

Rdfind

Categories
  • Hard Disk Usage
  • Hard Disk Management
  • Hard Drive Tools
  • File Management
Website rdfind.pauldreik.se  

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Music Library Cleanup with fdupes

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rdFind - a powerful, free, open source CLI tool to find and delete duplicate files in a system.

Category Popularity

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fdupes

Rdfind

Hard Disk Usage
48 48%
Hard Disk Usage
52% 52
Hard Disk Management
48 48%
Hard Disk Management
52% 52
Hard Drive Tools
48 48%
Hard Drive Tools
52% 52
File Management
50 50%
File Management
50% 50

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Social recommendations and mentions

Based on our record, Rdfind seems to be more popular. It has been mentiond 4 times since March 2021. We are tracking product recommendations and mentions on various public social media platforms and blogs. They can help you identify which product is more popular and what people think of it.

fdupes mentions (0)

We have not tracked any mentions of fdupes yet. Tracking of fdupes recommendations started around Mar 2021.

Rdfind mentions (4)

  • ZFS 2.2.0 (RC): Block Cloning merged
    You can get a similar effect on top of any file system that supports hard links with rdfind ( https://rdfind.pauldreik.se/ ) -- but it's pretty slow. The Arch wiki says: "Tools dedicated to deduplicate a Btrfs formatted partition include duperemove, bees, bedupAUR and btrfs-dedup. One may also want to merely deduplicate data on a file based level instead using e.g. rmlint, jdupesAUR or dduper-gitAUR. For an... - Source: Hacker News / 8 months ago
  • Best way to find duplicates?
    Rdfind is very good. It lets you do a variety of things when you find a duplicate: symlink to it, delete it etc. It's efficient in the way it looks for duplicates. Source: over 1 year ago
  • How can I list all of the non-overlapping files between two directory trees?
    You could use a deduplication tool like rdfind maybe? Source: almost 2 years ago
  • I finally got all 10TB of data spanning 15 years, countless PC's and laptops etc onto a NAS. Problem is I now have a tonne of duplicated files and no folder structure whatsoever. Whats your go-to method of your data?
    I generally use rdfind for this purpose on Linux, when I think/know there are probably some duplicates that I could hardlink together without negative effects. Source: almost 3 years ago

What are some alternatives?

When comparing fdupes and Rdfind, you can also consider the following products

dupeGuru - dupeGuru is a tool for finding duplicate files on your computer.

AllDup - AllDup is a freeware tool for searching and removing file duplicates on your Windows computer.

Czkawka - Multi functional app to find duplicates, empty folders, similar images etc.

FSlint - FSlint is a utility to find and clean various forms of lint on a filesystem. I.E.

Duplicate Media Finder - Duplicate Media Finder locates and deletes identical files and similar media

jdupes - Greatly improved fork of the fdupes duplicate scanner, including ports to Windows and Mac OS X.

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