It’s great for working with frequently used image extensions like JPG, PNG, even GIFs, but it can also help to organize your music, books and many other kinds of files. Verdict: This popular Linux find duplicates program is actually cross-platform so could be used on other systems, too. It can be launched in either command-line or GUI mode. You can opt to save or delete the files, merge two copies or replace them with a Symlink. When the program has finished, you will see a list of all the findings and decide what to do with each. There is a helpful feature that recursively searches in directories and sub-directories, and you can tick it when necessary. To set the Linux duplicate file finder going, add the path of whatever directory you want to scan into the Search bar and click Find at the bottom left of the window.

The installation can be launched with this command: For instance, the program can locate empty directories, temporary files, symbolic links and even conflicting names, to name just a few things.

It can be employed as a duplicate photo finder but there are other helpful tasks it can carry out. Running FindImageDupes afterwards still found 2 duplicate images/gifs that DupeGuru didn’t find.īut DupeGuru offers A) a simple GUI and B) right away the option to delete duplicates (I didn’t find this option with FindImageDupes but I think it’s possible with easy scripting).Verdict: This free utility can be used on a range of OS distributions and varying software repositories which include Ubuntu as well. Then I tried DupeGuru and it even detected my GIF duplicate files right away. I tried installing Py-Image-Dedup but the whole thing with elasticsearch backed feels above my skill (and the installation from pypi also failed). Py-Image-Dedup is Build up on the Image-Match library that compares pHash‘s.ĭoes DupeGuru use a simper detection algorithm for images?

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