Broom
I`ve come to understanding that I`m qite a bit of a hoarder myself.
Images, videos and other NECESSITIES are piling up and day by day fill up more and more of my disk space to the point when I need to take measures before the sessions of transferring my precious homework folder to the other devices with ftu start to last more than 60 minutes.
The collected MUST BE PRESERVED AND PASSED TO NEXT GENERATIONS after all, so keeping copies is essential...
Sadly, there is no magic in this world so I need to improvise and somehow reduce the actual size of the said folder. My choices are:
- Remove some precious files
- Archive the whole thing
- Stop hoarding, man !
- Remove duplicates while saving the structure
So, the problem is solved, right ? Just find some nice free and open-source duplicate remover and continue to collect to your heart`s content ! - NO, we do not do that here. The bicycle must be reinvented once again !
Broom is a command line utility to locate and manage duplicate and empty files in the desired directory.
Installation
"Compile it yourself" way
- clone the repository
- compile manually or with cmake (in build/ run:)
git clone https://unbewohnte.su:3000/Unbewohnte/broom
cmake . cmake --build .
Compiled binary for your platform will be in the newly created bin directory, you are free to put it wherever you desire.
If you're on GNU/Linux - you can run install.sh for broom to become system-wide accessible.
"The lazy" way
- proceed to the releases page and get yourself a pre-compiled binary
Usage
broom [FLAGS..] [COMMAND] [DIRECTORY]
[FLAGS]
-v or --version -> print version information and exit
-h or --help -> print this message and exit
-od or --output-directory -> path to the directory to save results file in
[COMMANDS]
sweep -> scan for duplicate files, REMOVE empty files and REPLACE other duplicates with symlinks
scan -> scan and save results in a file without removing anything [DEFAULT]
[DIRECTORY] is the path to the directory that will be searched for duplicate files
Examples
broom scan -od . ~/homework
broom sweep ~/homework
After the scan the results file will be saved in your current working directory, unless you specified it to be somewhere else. Scan results file contains a list of duplicate files that are grouped together so you can see EXACTLY WHERE each duplicate is in the filesystem.
~500MB of duplicates removed. Quite nice.
