/ffdup

Portable ultra fast light duplicate files finder written in Perl released as Free Software

Primary LanguagePerlGNU General Public License v3.0GPL-3.0

ffdup

ffdup is a portable ultra fast light duplicate file finder written in Perl released as Free Software.

What does ffdup do?

It crawls directories and detects quickly duplicated files.

More info about ffdup

  • it is written in Perl using only core modules
  • it uses a fast scan algorithm to detect duplicated files
  • it works greatly installed into NAS with Perl support (eg. Synology, D-LINK 323)

Install

Quick Install

wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/lookee/ffdup/master/ffdup.pl 
chmod +x ffdup.pl

Project

git clone https://github.com/lookee/ffdup.git

Example

./ffdup $DIR

Unit Test

A directory tree maker with duplicates file is available under directory: t

Author

Luca Amore

luca.amore at gmail.com

http://www.lucaamore.com