README.md

dupfinder

find and remove duplicate files

Requirements

• Python version 2.7
• Pony ORM (package name: pony)
• argparse if Python <2.7 (package name: argparse)

Dependency installation

Use Pip to install dependencies

pip install --upgrade pony

usage:

To get help:

python -m main -h

usage: main.py [-h] [--dbfile DBFILE] [--action ACTION] [--trashcan TRASHCAN]
			   [--delete] [--loglevel LOGLEVEL] [--maxsize MAXSIZE]

optional arguments:
  -h, --help           show this help message and exit
  --dbfile DBFILE
  --action ACTION
  --trashcan TRASHCAN
  --delete
  --loglevel LOGLEVEL
  --maxsize MAXSIZE

Actions:

scan - this will recursively scan the specified directory to generate and store checksums for all the contained files in the database

python -m main --action=scan <directory_to_scan>

find - this will recursively inspect the files in the specified directory and remove duplicate files that exist in the database

python -m main --action=find <directory_to_find_duplicates_in>

No files will be removed by default.

Options and defaults

1. maxsize: 10*1024^2 or 10MB - files larger than this will be skipped
2. delete: false - will remove duplicate files only when this is true
3. dbfile: sums.db