tldr/pages/common/rmlint.md

rmlint

Find space waste and other broken things on your filesystem. More information: https://rmlint.readthedocs.io/en/latest/rmlint.1.html.

• Check directories for duplicated, empty and broken files:

rmlint {{path/to/directory1 path/to/directory2 ...}}

• Check for duplicates bigger than a specific size, preferably keeping files in tagged directories (after the double slash):

rmlint -s {{1MB}} {{path/to/directory}} // {{path/to/original_directory}}

• Check for space wasters, keeping everything in the untagged directories:

rmlint --keep-all-untagged {{path/to/directory}} // {{path/to/original_directory}}

• Delete duplicate files found by an execution of rmlint:

./rmlint.sh

• Find duplicate directory trees based on data, ignoring names:

rmlint --merge-directories {{path/to/directory}}

• Mark files at lower path [d]epth as originals, on tie choose shorter [l]ength:

rmlint --rank-by={{dl}} {{path/to/directory}}

• Find files with identical filename and contents, and link rather than delete the duplicates:

rmlint -c sh:link --match-basename {{path/to/directory}}

• Use data as master directory. Find only duplicates in backup that are also in data. Do not delete any files in data:

rmlint {{path/to/backup}} // {{path/to/data}} --keep-all-tagged --must-match-tagged