yet another way to find duplicate files via cli

somethingweird

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Cleaning up my family images/movies - you know always backup to the NAS having duplicates all over the place! - thought I should clean up at this point.
I found this.

name: rdfind

manpage for rdfind
 
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There's also Czkawka, which is a very powerful GUI tool for managing duplicates and "similar images", among other nifty features.

It also has a CLI version (which is suited for SSH sessions.) Not sure how intuitive the CLI version is (since I only use the GUI frontend.)

It's available as a FreeBSD port or binary package:

pkg install czkawka

Fun fact: "czkawka" is Polish for "hiccup". :smile: Neat!

So why didn't they just name the application "Hiccup" or "Lint Hunter" or "Dupe Finder" or something cool and intuitive?

Because they want you to pull your freaking hair out trying to search for it online. What better way to brand your software than to make it a frustrating hurdle to discover? Do you know how many times I started my search with "ckw-" or "cwa-" or "caw-"?

:mad: :mad: :mad:
 
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