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Writing a program like this is one of the first exercises I give myself when learning a new programming language, because it touches a little bit of everything (reading files, output, CLI, using libraries, hashmaps, functions, loops, conditionals, etc) and isn't too onerous to implement.

My latest (it's a few years old at this point) is lsdup (rust version) using blake3 for hashing the content: https://github.com/redsaz/lsdup/

All it does is list the groups of duplicate files, grouped by hash, groups ordered by size. I'll usually pipe the output to a file, then do whatever I want to the list, and run a different script to process the resulting list. It works fine enough.

parent redsaz 3 years ago

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