Jdupes Alternatives

jdupes reviews and mentions

• File Servers... how are you handling duplicates
  1 project | /r/sysadmin | 8 Dec 2023

  I recommend the use of jdupes, a fork of the well-known fdupes, to find duplicate files.

• fdupes: Identify or Delete Duplicate Files
  13 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 2 Nov 2023

  200 lines of Nim [1] seems to run about 9X faster than the 8000 lines of C in fdupes on a little test dir I have. If you need C, I think jdupes [2] is faster as @TacticalCoder points out a couple of times here. In my testing, `dups` is usually faster than `jdupes`, though.

  [1] https://github.com/c-blake/bu/blob/main/dups.nim

  [2] https://github.com/jbruchon/jdupes

• I'm amazed how I find anything & why I have so many dupes!
  4 projects | /r/DataHoarder | 8 Jul 2023

  There's always the well-respected tool, Czkawka. Or, of the CLI is your thing, jdupes is a good option.

• Anyone know of any good file deduplication tools?
  2 projects | /r/sysadmin | 29 Jun 2023
• Johnny Decimal
  4 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 13 Jun 2023

  My research into this many years ago turned out that jdupes was the right / best solution I could find for my usecase.

  https://github.com/jbruchon/jdupes

  Though that works fine from a script perspective I'd like some more interactive way of sorting directories etc. Identifying is just the first step, jdupes helps with linking the files (both soft and hard links comes with caveats though!) but that is mostly to save space, not to help in reorganisation.

• Jdupes: A powerful duplicate file finder
  1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 6 Jun 2023
• Does jdupes do a 'dry run' if you just specify directory(s) and no other options
  1 project | /r/linuxquestions | 4 Jun 2023

  I can work it out by looking at https://github.com/jbruchon/jdupes.

• replace duplicates with hard links - I think jdupes is the answer, or maybe fclones (I have questions)
  1 project | /r/linuxquestions | 4 Jun 2023

  I have looked at a few alternatives and think jdupes is the one for me. Then I found out it was not multi-threaded so will give it a go but the developer of jdupes recomended fclones (https://github.com/jbruchon/jdupes/issues/186) if you were dealing with large file systems and wanted multi-threading. But as I am using a HD it may not be necessary.

• De-Duping a file server
  1 project | /r/sysadmin | 30 May 2023

  jdupes is a fork of the old standby fdupes, but it has a Win32 release as well as supporting POSIX.

• Any good duplicate file finder for windows?
  3 projects | /r/sysadmin | 22 Apr 2023

  jdupes is a tuned fork of the well-known fdupes, and has Win32 releases.

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