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find duplicate files utility

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A repurposed HP Pavillion TP01-0066 Desktop w/Ryzen 3700X, 256GB NVME SSD and 32GB RAM, with 5x USB 3.0 HDD's attached for mass storage and onsite backup using dirvish[1] and rdfind[2]. It has a fan but is usually silent.

[1] https://dirvish.org/ [2] https://github.com/pauldreik/rdfind

I use and test assorted duplicate finders regularly.

fdupes is the classic (going way way back) but it's really very slow, not worth using anymore.

The four I know are worth trying these days (depending on data set, hardware, file arrangement and other factors, any one of these might be fastest for a specific use case) are:

https://github.com/jbruchon/jdupes

https://github.com/pauldreik/rdfind

https://github.com/jvirkki/dupd

https://github.com/sahib/rmlint

Had not encountered fclones before, will give it a try.