GNU ELPA - dired-duplicates
dired-duplicates
- Description
- Find duplicate files locally and remotely
- Latest
- dired-duplicates-0.3.tar (.sig), 2023-Nov-15, 70.0 KiB
- Maintainer
- Harald Judt <h.judt@gmx.at>
- Website
- https://codeberg.org/hjudt/dired-duplicates
- Browse ELPA's repository
- CGit or Gitweb
- Badge
To install this package from Emacs, use package-install or list-packages.
Full description
1. Description
This Emacs package helps to find duplicate files on local and remote filesystems. It is similar to the fdupes command-line utility but written in Emacs Lisp and should also work on every remote filesystem that TRAMP supports. The most common use case for this is probably finding and deleting unneeded duplicate files.
dired-duplicates works by first searching files of the same size, then invoking
the calculation of the checksum for these files, and finally presenting the
grouped results in a Dired buffer that the user can work with similarly to a
regular Dired buffer. It might be even possible to combine this with other
Dired extension packages like dired-narrow for increased productivity.
By default, the results will be grouped visually by separating them using empty
lines, but this grouping can also be deactivated by setting the custom variable
dired-duplicates-separate-result to nil.
dired-duplicates will silently ignore unreadable directories and files.
2. Requirements
For performance reasons, a checksum program like md5 or sha256sum will be
used for generating checksums of file contents if available and executable on
the local and/or remote hosts. That way, no files need to be read over
possibly slow networks, thus calculating the checksum will be much faster when
directly executed on remote hosts. The name of the checksum program can be
customized. If unavailable, the file contents will be inserted into a temp
buffer and the checksum will be calculated using the secure-hash functions
with an appropriate algorithm. While this works everywhere, it is generally
slower and could cause out-of-memory problems so there is a customizable
dired-duplicates-internal-checksumming-size-limit setting. Files bigger than
this setting will not be processed, and a warning will be issued instead.
3. Installation
The package can be installed from MELPA or GNU ELPA via the Emacs package
manager, e.g. package-install. Or you use the following use-package snippet:
(use-package dired-duplicates)
4. Usage
Call dired-duplicates interactively and provide one or more directories
(usually separated by commas) to search in recursively.
5. Configuration
You can find all available customization options with customize-group,
entering dired-duplicates for the desired group. These options are described
extensively there.
6. Known issues and reporting bugs
6.1. Known issue with completing-multiple-read
At the moment, there is a problem in Emacs 28.1 and perhaps other versions with
completing-read-multiple that makes auto-completion fail. When you try to
specify more than one directory separated by commas (e.g. /tmp/1,/tmp/2), an
error may occur depending on the completing system. In such a case, you
might just do without auto-completion and ignore that error, dired-duplicates
will still function properly if you provide valid directories.
6.2. Reporting bugs
Just open an issue at the homepage of this project in case you hit an error, and provide proper steps to reproduce the problem.
7. License
This package is licensed under GPL-3. See the LICENSE file for more
information.
Old versions
| dired-duplicates-0.2.tar.lz | 2023-Nov-09 | 16.7 KiB |
News
1. dired-duplicates-0.3
- Silently ignore subdirectories that cannot be read, so that finding files will not abort on directories the user does not have permissions to read like lost+found.
- Silently ignore files that cannot be read.
- Add NEWS.org file.
2. dired-duplicates-0.2
- Use internal hash functions when remote shell or the external checksumming command is not available.
- Improve status update messages.
- First release on GNU ELPA.