README.md

dubdog

An ultimate CLI duplicate file finder and remover!

Watch the video tutorial on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qdoLNcz_zYg

Installation of needed libraries

Boost and OpenSSL libraries are used for reading the files and computing the hashes.

On Ubuntu/Debian install these libraries with:

sudo apt install libboost-iostreams-dev libssl-dev

Building

Build with CMake

mkdir build
cd build/
cmake ..
cmake --build .

Build directly with G++

g++ main.cpp -o dubdog -O3 -s -llibboost_iostreams-mt -lssl -lcrypto

Usage

dubdog path extensions [options]

Options:

-a [md5]|crc32|fso    hash algorithm
-t count              threads count
-v                    view only (don't ask for file removal)

extensions is a comma separated list of file's extensions.

For example when running on Windows you may run:

dubdog 'C:\Books' pdf,djvu,epub,fb2

Current version compares files by file's MD5 hash by default. Optionally it's possible to use -a hash in command line:

• -a crc32 is for CRC32 hash
• -a fso is comparison by "file size only". It's not a hash algorithm but it's very fast while it may produce many duplicates.