https://github.com/sahib/rmlint

Extremely fast tool to remove duplicates and other lint from your filesystem
https://github.com/sahib/rmlint

c deduplication duplicates fdupes filesystem lint python

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Extremely fast tool to remove duplicates and other lint from your filesystem

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/sahib/rmlint
• Owner: sahib
• License: gpl-3.0
• Created: 2010-09-27T15:57:42.000Z (over 14 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2025-03-25T10:09:17.000Z (20 days ago)
• Last Synced: 2025-04-03T01:59:52.243Z (12 days ago)
• Topics: c, deduplication, duplicates, fdupes, filesystem, lint, python
• Language: C
• Homepage: http://rmlint.rtfd.org
• Size: 12.3 MB
• Stars: 2,062
• Watchers: 41
• Forks: 135
• Open Issues: 104
• Metadata Files:
  • Readme: README.rst
  • Changelog: CHANGELOG.md
  • License: COPYING

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README

        
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`rmlint` finds space waste and other broken things on your filesystem and

offers to remove it.

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**Features:**

Finds…

- …Duplicate Files and duplicate directories.

- …Nonstripped binaries (i.e. binaries with debug symbols)

- …Broken symbolic links.

- …Empty files and directories.

- …Files with broken user or/and group ID.

**Differences to other duplicate finders:**

- Extremely fast (no exaggeration, we promise!)

- Paranoia mode for those who do not trust hashsums.

- Many output formats.

- No interactivity.

- Search for files only newer than a certain ``mtime``.

- Many ways to handle duplicates.

- Caching and replaying.

- `BTRFS` support.

- ...

It runs and compiles under most Unices, including Linux, FreeBSD, Darwin and Solaris.

The main target is Linux though, some optimisations might not be available

elsewhere.

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INSTALLATION

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Chances are that you might have `rmlint` already as readily made package in

your favourite distribution. If not, you might consider

`compiling it from source `_.

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DOCUMENTATION

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Detailed documentation is available on:

    http://rmlint.rtfd.org

Most features you'll ever need are covered in the tutorial:

    http://rmlint.rtfd.org/en/latest/tutorial.html

An online version of the manpage is available at:

    http://rmlint.rtfd.org/en/latest/rmlint.1.html

BUGS

----

If you found bugs, having trouble running `rmlint` or want to suggest new

features please `read this `_.

Also read the `BUGS `_ section of the `manpage `_

to find out how to provide good debug information.

AUTHORS

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Here's a list of developers to blame:

=================== ============================== =========

*Christopher Pahl*   https://github.com/sahib      2010-2017

*Daniel Thomas*      https://github.com/SeeSpotRun 2014-2021

*Cebtenzzre*         https://github.com/Cebtenzzre 2021-2023

=================== ============================== =========

There are some other people that helped us of course.

Please see the AUTHORS distributed along `rmlint`.

LICENSE

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`rmlint` is licensed under the conditions of the

`GPLv3 `_.

See the

`COPYING `

file distributed along the source for details.