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Remove duplicate files

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Remove duplicated files on a unix-like filesystem

Recursively compares based on size, then mdsum, then byte-wise comparison.

Install from https://github.com/adrianlopezroche/fdupes

# identify and remove
fdupes -rdN .
 
# find them
fdupes -r dir > ~/duplicates.txt

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