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ddh-move

Consumes the output list of duplicate files from ddh and lets you do something with the duplicates. ddh is a great tool for finding duplicate files in your directories, but it doesn't do anything with them. ddh-move allows you move the duplicates to another location (or delete them) according to some criteria.

This is a work in progress, I'll be adding tests and more options in the future.

Usage:

ddh <Directory> --output no --format json -v duplicates | tail -n 1 | python3 ddh-move.py <Destination> [OPTIONS]

When run with no options, the file names are sorted and the first file is kept while the rest are moved to the provided destination. For example, if files a.txt, b.txt, c.txt were identical, files b.txt and c.txt will be moved to the provided destination and a.txt will be left in the original location.

Options:

--dry-run    Print the files to be moved without moving them.

Testing:

The tests assume that you have ddh installed on your system, in my case I just copied the binary to /usr/bin. This is to ensure continued compatibility with future versions of ddh and my script, as well as possibly varied output from ddh which would not be captured by a static text copy of ddh output.

Requirements:

ddh-move and its tests require Python 3.5 or above.

License

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