An improved rm implementation able to remove duplicate files
rmd is an rm reimplementation made in pure Rust. It is able to remove files and directories as usual but it also able to remove duplicate file in given directories recursively.
Duplicate file are found by comparing SHA256 hashes. When a file has an hash that has already been found it is removed immediately.
This tool can be easly installed from sources:
bash
cargo instal rmd
It works in an almost compatible way with the standard rm. To get a full help run:
bash
rmd --help
But the most common scenarios includes:
remove files, for example:
bash
rmd FILE_A FILE_B
remove a directory, for example:
bash
rmd -rf DIR_A
remove duplicates files in the current directory, and all sub directoris:
bash
rmd -d
or remove duplicates files in a specified directory:
bash
rmd -d /PATH/TO/DIRECTORY
Interactive mode is not currently implemented, if the program is run with the -i flag it will not behaves differently
So
bash
rmd -i FILE_A FILE_B
is equivalent to
bash
rmd -i FILE_A FILE_B