Contents
English (United Kingdom)French (Fr)Deutsch (DE-CH-AT)
Search
Login
Who Is Online?
We have 157 guests online
Navigation
Home Free Software Command line utilities FindDuplicates - Find duplicate files - Using FindDuplicates
Most Recent
Featured Articles
Joomla 1.5 Featured Articles
Navigation
Home Free Software Command line utilities FindDuplicates - Find duplicate files - Using FindDuplicates
English (United Kingdom)French (Fr)Deutsch (DE-CH-AT)
FindDuplicates - Find duplicate files - Using FindDuplicates E-mail
User Rating: / 10
PoorBest 
Free Software - Command line utilities
Written by Thomas   
Tuesday, 10 February 2009 18:34
Article Index
FindDuplicates - Find duplicate files
Installation
Using FindDuplicates
Command line parameters
Release notes
All Pages
Page 3 of 5



USAGE:
 FindDuplicates [path] [/option(s)]
 FindDuplicates [path1] [path2] [pathn] [/option(s)]


FindDuplicates accepts one or more paths to check for duplicate files.

Files are considered duplicate when their contents are identical. Unlike other duplicate files finders, FindDuplicates does not care about file timestamps or any other unreliable information. Files are compared byte by byte (of course a bit more sophisticated). Again, that means files are treated as being duplicate files when their contents are identical, no more, no less.

The software starts by comparing the largest files first, and then checks the smaller file sizes. If two files don't have the same file size they can't be identical. Each file is read in blocks to avoid more read operations than necessary.

Since FindDuplicates doesn't show a progress bar to save time the "best guess" for the remainder of the process is to display the files' sizes it currently compares.

When more then one path is provided the software checks for duplicates between all of them. For example, if there's a folder 'folder1' and another folder 'folder2' with an identical file in each folder, it is found.

Assuming the two files are identical,
folder1\file1.dat
folder2\file2.dat

FindDuplicates would then report:
(1)   21883418 octets, folder1\file1.dat
(2)   21883418 octets, folder2\file2.dat




< Prev   Next >
Last Updated on Monday, 28 June 2010 09:16
 
You need to login or register to post comments.
Discuss this item on the forums. (0 posts)
Discuss (0 posts)