Manuals
This page contains the manuals of the tools within the samesame collection. The tools are deviced in to two groups: duplicate file finders and action driven tools.
Duplicate file finders
- Samearchive
- reads a list of filenames (from stdin) and a list of directories
(from the paramenters). And reports the identical files if, and only if,
they have the same relative path.
Example: find /backup/arch* | samearchive -ivvv arch1 arch2 - Samearchive-lite
- reads a partial list of filenames and directories (from the
paramenters). And combines the partial list with the parameters to get a
full list. And reports the identical files if, and only if, they have
the same relative path.
Example: find /backup/arch1 | samearchive-lite -vvv arch1 arch2 - Samefile
- reads a list of filenames (from stdin) and reports the identical
files. And reports a full list of identical files on the output.
Example: find / | samefile -ivvv
Action driven tools
These tools all read the samefile output (each line containing two files that are identical) that the duplicate file finders output and perform some action. The can be split in nodes and leafs. When the latter consumes the lines when they succeed in perorming the actions. And the nodes don't.
The nodes are:
Example: find / | samefile -i | sameflags -n noschg | sameln -vn
Example: find / | samefile -i | samechmod -n g+w | sameln -vn
Example: find / | samefile -i | samechown -n root:wheel | sameln -vn Samedelay
Example: find / | samefile -i | samedelay | sameln -vn
The leafs are:
- Samecp
- copies the first file of a pair of identical files to another location
Example: find / | samefile -i | samecp -lvn - Sameln
- frees up the waisted disk space by relinks one to the other.
Example: find / | samefile -i | sameln -vn - Samemv
- moves the first file of a pair of identical files to another location
Example: find / | samefile -i | samemv -vn - Samerm
- removes the last file of identical files to free disk space
Example: find / | samefile -ir | samerm -vn