mklinks: tool for finding and hardlinking identical files

Latest release 20210306: Use cs.cmdutils.BaseCommand for main programme, add better progress reporting.

Mklinks walks supplied paths looking for files with the same content, based on a cryptographic checksum of their content. It hardlinks all such files found, keeping the newest version.

Unlike some rather naive tools out there, mklinks only compares files with other files of the same size, and is hardlink aware - a partially hardlinked tree is processed efficiently and correctly.

Class FileInfo

Information about a particular inode.

Method FileInfo.assimilate(self, other, no_action=False)

Link our primary path to all the paths from other. Return success.

Method FileInfo.same_dev(self, other)

Test whether two FileInfos are on the same filesystem.

Method FileInfo.same_file(self, other)

Test whether two FileInfos refer to the same file.

Method FileInfo.stat_key(S)

Compute the key (dev,ino) from the stat object S.

Class Linker

The class which links files with identical content.

Method Linker.addpath(self, path)

Add a new path to the data structures.

Method Linker.merge(self, *a, **kw)

Merge files with equivalent content.

Method Linker.scan(self, *a, **kw)

Scan the file tree.

Function main(argv=None)

Main command line programme.

Class MKLinksCmd(cs.cmdutils.BaseCommand)

Main programme command line class.

Method MKLinksCmd.apply_defaults(self)

Set up the default values in options.

Method MKLinksCmd.apply_opts(self, opts)

Apply command line options.

Method MKLinksCmd.main(self, argv)

Usage: mklinks [-n] paths... Hard link files with identical contents. -n No action. Report proposed actions.

Release Log

Release 20210306: Use cs.cmdutils.BaseCommand for main programme, add better progress reporting.

Release 20171228: Initial PyPI release of cs.app.mklinks.