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SmartDupe

Name: SmartDupe
Rating: 5 (1 reviews)

1.0

05 November 2012

Easily replace duplicates by Hard Links.

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Overview

Note: SmartDupe is no longer under development, and it is no longer available for download.

SmartDupe is bash script which replaces file Duplicates in a given path by Hard links to free space on your Hard Drive.

Works for UNIX Based Systems Mac OS X and Linux

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Version 1.0:

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2 SmartDupe Reviews

Thinking-Differently

03 June 2013

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Just as the developer says, this is a shell script. No GUI. Nothing wrong with that. But, if you aren't comfortable using a shell script, than look at some of the similar software. However, this is free!! And since it is a shell script, you can edit the code if you want to and know how.

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Version 1.0

Mikael-B

26 September 2018

Even glancing at the commands it's hard to determine exactly what the criteria is for determining if a file is a duplicate. It seems unlikely to succeed identifying exactly the same content for example. Which is what a duplicate is. Even if this succeeds, why would you need hard links? What is supposed to be designated the original?
There's no example config file supplied. I don't see much value in this except to learn some file handling commands from. I'm sure it has its uses, like when managing code.

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Version 1.0

Thinking-Differently

03 June 2013

Just as the developer says, this is a shell script. No GUI. Nothing wrong with that. But, if you aren't comfortable using a shell script, than look at some of the similar software. However, this is free!! And since it is a shell script, you can edit the code if you want to and know how.

Like

Version 1.0