Command line tool that finds duplicate directories and provides their basic handling.
Have you ever backed up a backup folder of a backup folder? Have you then tried to deduplicate the tangled mess with conventional deduplicator only to find that you have to check 20 431 files manually? Then the DuDe is for you! DuDe finds the topmost duplicate folders in your filesystem and allows you to effortlessly get rid of all of your duplicates once and for all (or at least until the next backup...).
...at least that's the sales pitch. It's not there yet.
(Also this is a small project intended as a learning experience with Rust.)
TBD. For now the only way is cloning the repo and building from source. I have so far only tested the code with Rust v1.64 on Fedora 35.
Warning: The crate is still pretty new and there are some big changes to the API to be expected.
Scan a directory for duplicates
bash
dude --path path/to/some/dir --path path/to/another/dir
Once the directory is scanned DuDe will print the duplicate groups found. E.g.:
```bash
Select action and paths. (Or press Ctrl-C to exit program.)
[O]pen, Open [F]older, [D]elete, ReplaceWith[H]ardlink, ReplaceWith[S]oftlink, [N]othing
To act on the items found type the letter of action and file numbers. E.g.
bash
O 0 1
will open both files.
D 0
```
will delete "path/to/dir/some_dir/A" in our example. (This is not implemented yet.)
To configure the number of threads used in calculating checksums use the --jobs flag:
dude --path path/to/some/dir --jobs 3
When using the DuDe with a modern CPU and an external HDD it is usually better to use only one thread (as is the default now), since the program then becomes IO-bound and the parallel access to multiple files from the HDD can reduce the read speed.
``` Usage: dude [OPTIONS]
Options:
-p, --path