How to find (and delete) duplicate files - Ask Ubuntu
for Ubuntu, another way is to open Files, search (control-f) for a given extension (eg .mp3), and then sort on file name; this will allow to delete duplicates by hand, and at the same time show the locations of …
How to find duplicate files with same content, but with same or ...
Oct 14, 2020 · Closed 5 years ago. I often end up with duplicate files with same content, but with same or different names while doing the literature study. How to find and delete the duplicate files from …
How to eliminate duplicate files - Ask Ubuntu
May 10, 2020 · # Search for duplicate files over 10MB with a progress bar rmlint -T "df" --size 10M -g # Start the optional graphical frontend to rmlint called Shredder rmlint --gui rmlint finds space waste …
How to delete duplicate files with fdupes? - Ask Ubuntu
Aug 18, 2012 · When I run fdupes it finds more than 30,000 duplicate files. I need to keep one file and delete all the other duplicates (because some of them are systemfiles). Please give me a command …
How to find ONLY duplicate files that have different names?
Feb 8, 2016 · 8 FSlint can find duplicate files. But suppose one has 10,000 songs or images and wants to find ONLY those files that are identical but have different names? Right now, I get a list that has …
How to prevent grep from printing the same string multiple times?
Oct 5, 2015 · The Unix philosophy is to have tools that do one thing and do them well. In this case, grep is the tool that selects text from a file. To find out if there are duplicates, one sorts the text. To …
How to find duplicate lines in very large (65GB) text files?
Apr 18, 2022 · I need to find duplicate lines in all of these 10 text files combined and I need to be able to know which duplicate line came from which file and how many files have duplicate lines? How can I …
text processing - How do I combine two files while excluding lines that ...
Feb 16, 2022 · I have 2 files that can not be sorted. Both of them have a list of words per lines. I am trying to compare both files and create a new one without any duplicate lines that get matched …
apt - How to fix "W: Duplicate sources.list entry"? - Ask Ubuntu
Apr 10, 2012 · The easy and effective way to remove these is to note which repositories are reported as duplicates by apt-get update and remove them via the Software Center. Open it and choose Edit -> …
Find duplicate files: keep older version - Ask Ubuntu
May 26, 2015 · I need a command line tool to remove duplicate files. There are several. But I could not find one which always keeps the older files and deletes the newer versions. I tried finddup, duff, …