Install Phpcpd On A Debian, Ubuntu, Kali, Fedora And Raspbian

phpcpd

A copy and paste detector for PHP code.

Maintainer: Debian PHP PEAR Maintainers

Email: [email protected] .

Website: https://github.com/sebastianbergmann/phpcpd

Section: php

Install phpcpd

Debian apt-get install phpcpd Click to copy
Ubuntu apt-get install phpcpd Click to copy
Kali Linux apt-get install phpcpd Click to copy
Fedora dnf install phpcpd Click to copy
Raspbian apt-get install phpcpd Click to copy

A copy and paste detector for PHP code.

How to use phpcpd?

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

Analyse duplicated code for a specific file or directory:
phpcpd path/to/file_or_directoryClick to copyAnalyse using fuzzy matching for variable names:
phpcpd --fuzzy path/to/file_or_directoryClick to copySpecify a minimum number of identical lines (defaults to 5):
phpcpd --min-lines number_of_lines path/to/file_or_directoryClick to copySpecify a minimum number of identical tokens (defaults to 70):
phpcpd --min-tokens number_of_tokens path/to/file_or_directoryClick to copyExclude a directory from analysis (must be relative to the source):
phpcpd --exclude path/to/excluded_directory path/to/file_or_directoryClick to copyOutput the results to a PHP-CPD XML file:
phpcpd --log-pmd path/to/log_file path/to/file_or_directoryClick to copy

To install the latest version of phpcpd in your favorite operating system just copy the phpcpd installation command from above and paste it into terminal. It will download and install the latest version of phpcpd 2026 package in your OS.