Diskussion:FSlint

FSlint is available in various Linux distributions’ software repositories, including Ubuntu, Debian, Fedora, and Red Hat.

Just fire up your package manager and install the “fslint” package.
This utility provides a convenient graphical interface by default, but it also includes command-line versions of its various functions.
Like many Linux applications, the FSlint graphical interface is just a front-end that uses the FSlint commands underneath.

Don’t let that scare you away from using FSlint’s convenient graphical interface, though.

By default, it opens with the Duplicates pane selected and your home directory as the default search path.
All you have to do is click the Find button and FSlint will find a list of duplicate files in directories under your home folder.
Use the buttons to delete any files you want to remove, and double-click them to preview them.

Note that the command-line utilities aren’t in your path by default, so you can’t run them like typical commands.

On Ubuntu, you’ll find them under /usr/share/fslint/fslint.
So, if you wanted to run the entire fslint scan on a single directory, here are the commands you’d run on Ubuntu:

cd /usr/share/fslint/fslint
./fslint /path/to/directory

This command won’t actually delete anything.