rmlint

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

Install

All systems
curl cmd.cat/rmlint.sh
Debian Debian
apt-get install rmlint
Ubuntu
apt-get install rmlint
Arch Arch Linux
pacman -S rmlint
image/svg+xml Kali Linux
apt-get install rmlint
Windows (WSL2)
sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install rmlint
OS X
brew install 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 space wasters, preferably keeping files in tagged directories (after the double slash):
    rmlint 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:
    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 only duplicates that have the same filename in addition to the same contents:
    rmlint --match-basename path/to/directory
  • Find only duplicates that have the same extension in addition to the same contents:
    rmlint --match-extension path/to/directory

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