AntiDup

Platform independent, interactive command line utility for Finding, renaming or removing duplicate files from a file system

Requires node.js to be installed

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Features

• Use from the command line
• Search the file system recursively
• Optionally open each duplicate manually or automatically open each group of duplicates
• Filter search by file extension
• Creates a log file (default: duplicates.log) that contains the duplicate search results.
• Search for duplicates by comparing binary data.

• Delete all duplicates in a specific file path in one key stroke

Usage

Command Line

antidup string: root of search path <string: file extension> <boolean: open duplicates automatically><string: logFileName <boolean: compare using bytes>

When skipping optional arguments, a place holder must be provided. Use false for boolean and null for strings. antidup / .jpg false null true

Example:

This will search all files and directories under "/" for duplicate filenames with the .jpg extension and when listing the duplicates it will open them with the default application for inspection.

antidup / .jpg true

The flow of the dialog would occur something like this:

• As shown in the image files are displayed as they are being checked.
• Then the option to delete all duplicates within a specific directory is displayed
• The first duplicate file is displayed along with the full path of the duplicates
• Options to delete, skip, rename or open the first duplicate are displayed as well as the option to quit.
• That process will continue for all duplicates

duplicates.log

Everytime you run antidup a duplicates.log file is created in the directory from which antidup is executed. It contains a list of all the duplicates found in the following format. You can provide a different name for the log file using the 4th argument to the function. When using the useBytes option, duplicates will be identified with a path for each group of duplicates and not the file name as shown in the previous example.