GitHub - sahib/rmlint: Extremely fast tool to remove duplicates and other lint from your filesystem (original) (raw)
rmlint finds space waste and other broken things on your filesystem and offers to remove it.
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.
INSTALLATION
Chances are that you might have rmlint already as readily made package in your favourite distribution. If not, you might considercompiling it from source.
DOCUMENTATION
Detailed documentation is available on:
Most features you'll ever need are covered in the tutorial:
An online version of the manpage is available at:
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 manpageto find out how to provide good debug information.
AUTHORS
Here's a list of developers to blame:
There are some other people that helped us of course. Please see the AUTHORS distributed along rmlint.
LICENSE
rmlint is licensed under the conditions of theGPLv3. See the COPYING <https://raw.githubusercontent.com/sahib/rmlint/master/COPYING> file distributed along the source for details.