• Bob_Spud@alien.topB
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    10 months ago

    There seem to be a few of these in Github, found this one recently it seems to do a reasonable job. The real problem is its bash script you need WSL2 to run it on windows.

    What I like is the output is CSV files that are spreadsheet friendly and can be used to analyze and remove files in bulk.

    https://github.com/Jim-JMCD/Duplicate-File-Finder

    Czkaaka (CLI version) output file can be used to delete stuff in bulk but doesn’t list directories separately you have to through files individually.

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      10 months ago

      The real problem is its bash script you need WSL2 to run it on windows.

      Eh?

      WSL2 is one way to run a Linux kernel (and thus native Linux executable binaries) in Windows.

      And while bash is definitely very common on Linux, it has never by any means been a strictly Linux program.

      It can be used on all kinds of operating systems – mostly unix-like operating systems, but also including Windows using a POSIX compatibility shim like Cygwin.

      People were using bash in 1989, years before Linux became the beginning of a thing. And folks have been using it on Windows since at least 1995, or maybe even earlier – decades before WSL.