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