NAME App::DuplicateFilesUtils - CLI utilities related to duplicate files VERSION This document describes version 0.005 of App::DuplicateFilesUtils (from Perl distribution App-DuplicateFilesUtils), released on 2022-08-19. DESCRIPTION This distributions provides the following command-line utilities: * move-duplicate-files-to * show-duplicate-files FUNCTIONS move_duplicate_files_to Usage: move_duplicate_files_to(%args) -> [$status_code, $reason, $payload, \%result_meta] Move duplicate files (except one copy) to a directory. This utility will find all duplicate sets of files and move all of the duplicates (except one) for each set to a directory of your choosing. See also: show-duplicate-files which lets you manually select which copies of the duplicate sets you want to move/delete. This function is not exported. This function supports dry-run operation. Arguments ('*' denotes required arguments): * dir* => *dirname* Directory to move duplicate files into. Special arguments: * -dry_run => *bool* Pass -dry_run=>1 to enable simulation mode. Returns an enveloped result (an array). First element ($status_code) is an integer containing HTTP-like status code (200 means OK, 4xx caller error, 5xx function error). Second element ($reason) is a string containing error message, or something like "OK" if status is 200. Third element ($payload) is the actual result, but usually not present when enveloped result is an error response ($status_code is not 2xx). Fourth element (%result_meta) is called result metadata and is optional, a hash that contains extra information, much like how HTTP response headers provide additional metadata. Return value: (any) show_duplicate_files Usage: show_duplicate_files() -> [$status_code, $reason, $payload, \%result_meta] Show duplicate files. This is actually a shortcut for: % uniq-files -a --show-count --show-size --group-by-digest -R . Sample output: % show-duplicate-files +------------------------------+---------+-------+ | file | size | count | +------------------------------+---------+-------+ | ./tmp/P_20161001_112707.jpg | 1430261 | 2 | | ./tmp2/P_20161001_112707.jpg | 1430261 | 2 | | | | | | ./20160420/IMG_3430-(95).JPG | 1633463 | 2 | | ./tmp/IMG_3430-(95).JPG | 1633463 | 2 | | | | | | ./tmp/P_20161009_081735.jpg | 1722586 | 2 | | ./tmp2/P_20161009_081735.jpg | 1722586 | 2 | | | | | | ./20160420/IMG_3430-(98).JPG | 1847543 | 3 | | ./tmp/IMG_3430-(98).JPG | 1847543 | 3 | | ./tmp2/IMG_3430-(98).JPG | 1847543 | 3 | | | | | | ./20160420/IMG_3430-(97).JPG | 1878472 | 2 | | ./tmp/IMG_3430-(97).JPG | 1878472 | 2 | | | | | | ./20160420/IMG_3430-(99).JPG | 1960652 | 3 | | ./tmp/IMG_3430-(99).JPG | 1960652 | 3 | | ./tmp2/IMG_3430-(99).JPG | 1960652 | 3 | | | | | | ./20160420/IMG_3430-(96).JPG | 2042952 | 2 | | ./tmp/IMG_3430-(96).JPG | 2042952 | 2 | | | | | | ./20160420/IMG_3430-(92).JPG | 2049127 | 2 | | ./tmp/IMG_3430-(92).JPG | 2049127 | 2 | | | | | | ./20160420/IMG_3430-(94).JPG | 2109852 | 2 | | ./tmp/IMG_3430-(94).JPG | 2109852 | 2 | | | | | | ./20160420/IMG_3430-(91).JPG | 2138724 | 2 | | ./tmp/IMG_3430-(91).JPG | 2138724 | 2 | | | | | | ./20160420/IMG_3430-(93).JPG | 2190379 | 2 | | ./tmp/IMG_3430-(93).JPG | 2190379 | 2 | +------------------------------+---------+-------+ You can then delete or move the duplicates manually, if you want. But there's also move-duplicate-files-to to automatically move all the duplicates (but one, for each set) to a directory of your choice. To perform other actions on the duplicate copies, for example delete them, you can use uniq-files directly e.g. (in bash): % uniq-files -R -D * | while read f; do rm "$p"; done This function is not exported. No arguments. Returns an enveloped result (an array). First element ($status_code) is an integer containing HTTP-like status code (200 means OK, 4xx caller error, 5xx function error). Second element ($reason) is a string containing error message, or something like "OK" if status is 200. Third element ($payload) is the actual result, but usually not present when enveloped result is an error response ($status_code is not 2xx). Fourth element (%result_meta) is called result metadata and is optional, a hash that contains extra information, much like how HTTP response headers provide additional metadata. Return value: (any) HOMEPAGE Please visit the project's homepage at . SOURCE Source repository is at . SEE ALSO uniq-files and dupe-files from App::UniqFiles find-duplicate-filenames from App::FindUtils AUTHOR perlancar CONTRIBUTING To contribute, you can send patches by email/via RT, or send pull requests on GitHub. Most of the time, you don't need to build the distribution yourself. You can simply modify the code, then test via: % prove -l If you want to build the distribution (e.g. to try to install it locally on your system), you can install Dist::Zilla, Dist::Zilla::PluginBundle::Author::PERLANCAR, Pod::Weaver::PluginBundle::Author::PERLANCAR, and sometimes one or two other Dist::Zilla- and/or Pod::Weaver plugins. Any additional steps required beyond that are considered a bug and can be reported to me. COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE This software is copyright (c) 2022, 2020 by perlancar . This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as the Perl 5 programming language system itself. BUGS Please report any bugs or feature requests on the bugtracker website When submitting a bug or request, please include a test-file or a patch to an existing test-file that illustrates the bug or desired feature.