# fdupes

## delete duplicate files without conformation

```
fdupes -r /path/to/folder
```

## To manually confirm deletion of duplicated files

```
fdupes -r -d /path/to/folder
```

## To automatically delete all copies but the first of each duplicated file

#### (be warned, this actually deletes files, as requested)

```
fdupes -r -f . | grep -v '^$' | xargs rm -v
```

## I'd recommend to manually check files before deletion

#### 1. write duplicates to text-file

```
fdupes -rf . | grep -v '^$' > files 
```

#### 2. then manually check the files to delete and remove files that should not be deleted from file 3. remove all files that occour in the text-file with:

```
xargs -a files rm -v
```