PyDirDuplicateFinder 0.2.0

Analyse all files in a directory and manage duplicate files (the same file present with different names)

Introduction

This application help you cleaning your filesystem from duplicate files. The duplicate meaning here is: the same file is present with different names.

You can use it in this way:

Usage: pydirduplicatefinder.py [options] [directory]

Options:
  --version             show program's version number and exit
  -h, --help            show this help message and exit
  -a ACTION, --action=ACTION
                        Choose an action to do when a duplicate is found.
                        Valid options are print,rename,move; print is the
                        default.
  -r, --recursive       Also check files in subdirectories recursively.
  -p PREFIX, --prefix=PREFIX
                        Prefix used for renaming duplicated files when the
                        'rename' action is chosen.
  -m PATH, --move-path=PATH
                        The directory where duplicate will be moved when the
                        'move' action is chosen.
  -s MIN_SIZE, --min-size=MIN_SIZE
                        Indicate the min size in byte of a file to be checked.
                        Default is 10. Empty file are always ignored.

TODO

• Work on more that a folder.

• A way to specify filters, to skip files or directory.

Credits

• Thanks to Lord Epzylon for sending me some code and modifications.

Subversion and other

The SVN repository is hosted at the Keul’s Python Libraries

Changelog

0.2.0

• Added the ‘move’ action.

• Added the –recursive option, to walk an entire tree of folders (thanks to Lord Epzylon).

• Added the –min-size option, to specify a minimum size of the files to be checked.

0.1.2

• Bad bug in the setup.py. Code was ok but the 0.1.1 egg was not installable. Thanks to the everywhere present A. Jung.

0.1.1

• Fix to the setup.py script.

• Added doc infos.

• First egg official release.

0.1.0 - Unreleased

• First release