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My research into this many years ago turned out that jdupes was the right / best solution I could find for my usecase. https://github.com/jbruchon/jdupes https
by tjoff 3y ago
My research into this many years ago turned out that jdupes was the right / best solution I could find for my usecase.
https://github.com/jbruchon/jdupes https://github.com/jbruchon/jdupes
Though that works fine from a script perspective I'd like some more interactive way of sorting directories etc. Identifying is just the first step, jdupes helps with linking the files (both soft and hard links comes with caveats though!) but that is mostly to save space, not to help in reorganisation.
- liendolucas 3y agoIt seems to me that is not a trivial problem to solve: de-duplication + reorganization. Maybe I'm incorrect. It also seems the kind of problem where it could be super-easy to screw it if you go with a custom made script plugging different tools...