+.TH "FINDDUP" 1 "Mar 2010" "Francois Fleuret" "User Commands"
+
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-.TH "FINDDUP" 1 "Mar 2010" "Francois Fleuret" "User Commands"
-
.SH "NAME"
finddup \- Find files common to two directories (or not)
.SH "DESCRIPTION"
-With a single directory argument, \fBfinddup\fP prints the duplicate
+With a single directory argument, \fBfinddup\fP prints the duplicated
files found in it. With two directories, it prints either the files
-common to both DIR1 and DIR2, or with the not: prefix, the ones
+common to both DIR1 and DIR2, or with the `not:' prefix, the ones
present in DIR1 and not in DIR2.
.SH "OPTIONS"
\fB-h\fR
display help and exit
.TP
+\fB-d\fR
+ignore files and directories starting with a dot
+.TP
+\fB-c\fR
+do not show which files from DIR2 corresponds to files from DIR1
+.TP
+\fB-g\fR
+do not show the file group IDs (one group for each content)
+.TP
+\fB-p\fR
+show progress information in stderr
+.TP
\fB-r\fR
shows the real path of the files
.SH "BUGS"
-Every pair of different files with same content are listed, which
-results in K^2 printed lines when K files are similar.
+None known, probably many. Valgrind does not complain though.
+
+While not a bug per se, the format of the output should definitely be
+improved. Not clear how.
+
+.SH "EXAMPLES"
+.nf
+.B finddup -cg blah something
+
+.fi
+List files found in
+.B ./blah/
+which have a matching file with exact same content in
+.B ./something/
+without the group IDs
+
+.P
+.B finddup ./sources not:./backup
+
+.fi
+List all files found in
+.B ./sources/
+which do not have content-matching equivalent in
+.B ./backup.sources
+
+.P
+.B finddup ./tralala ./cuicui | sort -n
+
+.fi
+List groups of files with same content which exist both in
+.B ./tralala/
+and
+.B ./cuicui/
.SH "AUTHOR"
projects / finddup.git / blobdiff