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alphaniner

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From: Ancapistan

Registered: 2010-07-12

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[Solved] Simple directory dedupe

Say I copy directory foo to bar, then make some changes to the contents of bar (modify existing files, create new ones). Is there a simple way to dedupe bar against foo, eg. remove everything but the new/modified files?

Last edited by alphaniner (2014-09-18 18:47:41)

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hydn

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Registered: 2012-09-23

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Re: [Solved] Simple directory dedupe

rsync with --delete

Something like?...

rsync -avvru --delete /bar/ /foo

man rsync as I'm pretty sure its possible.

Last edited by hydn (2014-09-18 17:55:18)

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drcouzelis

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Re: [Solved] Simple directory dedupe

...whatever automatic tool you use, make sure you make a backup copy of both directories first!

progandy

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Re: [Solved] Simple directory dedupe

There is fdupes, rmlint, rmdupe, ddupes, finddupes, ...

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alphaniner

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From: Ancapistan

Registered: 2010-07-12

Posts: 2,810

Re: [Solved] Simple directory dedupe

There is fdupes, rmlint, rmdupe, ddupes, finddupes, ...

Is that all?

Thanks, I should have looked closer at my google results. I swear when I've looked into this in the past I only found stuff like lessfs.

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