Fdupes Installation On A Debian, Ubuntu, Alpine, Arch, Kali, Fedora, Raspbian And MacOS

Fdupes Installation On A Debian, Ubuntu, Alpine, Arch, Kali, Fedora, Raspbian And MacOS

fdupes

Finds duplicate files in a given set of directories.

Maintainer: Sandro Tosi



Section: utils

Install fdupes

  • Debian apt-get install fdupes Click to copy
  • Ubuntu apt-get install fdupes Click to copy
  • Alpine OS apk add fdupes Click to copy
  • Arch Linux pacman -S fdupes Click to copy
  • Kali Linux apt-get install fdupes Click to copy
  • Fedora dnf install fdupes Click to copy
  • Raspbian apt-get install fdupes Click to copy
  • macOS brew install fdupes Click to copy

Finds duplicate files in a given set of directories.

How to use fdupes?

Below are few example commands for fdupes that you can use in the terminal.

Search a single directory:
fdupes directoryClick to copy
Search multiple directories:
fdupes directory1 directory2Click to copy
Search all directories recursively:
fdupes -r directoryClick to copy
Search multiple directories, one recursively:
fdupes directory1 -R directory2Click to copy
Install the latest version of fdupes in Debian, Ubuntu, Alpine, Arch, Kali, Fedora, Raspbian and macOS from terminal. To install the fdupes just copy the above command for your OS and run into terminal. After you run the command it will grab the latest version of fdupes from the respository and install it in your computer/server.