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Freedup finds and eliminates duplicate files by linking them, and thus reduces the amount of used disk space withinone or more file systems. By default, hardlinks are used on a single device, symbolic links when the devices differ. A set of options allows you to modify the methods of file comparison, the hash functions, the linking behavior, and the reporting style. You may use batch or interactive mode. Freedup usually only considers identical files, but when comparing audio or graphics files, you may elect to ignore the tags.License: GNU General Public License (GPL)Changes:
You now have full capabilities to determine link direction, which is particularily helpful when more then two files need to be linked. Also, the limitation that not more than 256 files may be identical no longer exists. (For efficient memory usage, four identical files are assumed and if more exist, memory allocation is doubled each time the boundary is reached.) The "-H" switch allows you to treat files that are already linked as duplicates, too. Without "-H", depending on the linking directions, the results can vary.

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