clup - clean duplicates

A .NET Core 2.1 CLI tool to easily remove duplicate files.

Installing from DotGet

Make sure to get the .NET Core 2.1 SDK, then just run this command:

dotnet tool install clup -g

And that's it, you're ready to go!

Quick start

clup has three main commands: delete, move and list.

While they share most of the available options, the main difference is that delete automatically removes all the duplicate files it founds (leaving only the original files), move keeps the duplicate files after moving them in a specified directory, and list just writes down a summary of the discovered duplicate files.

Other options include:

• -m | --minsize and -M | --maxsize: used to specify a min/max size (in bytes) for the files to be processed and deleted.
• -h | --hash: to indicate whether to just use the MD5 hash of the files contents to check for duplicates, or to also include the files extensions or complete filenames.
• -i | --include: a list of file extensions to use to filter the files in the source directory.
• -e | --exclude: an optional list of file extensions to ignore (this option and include are mutually exclusive).
• -b | --beep: play a short feedback sound when the requested operation completes.
• -v | --verbose: display additional info after analyzing the source directory.
• --source-current: use the current working directory as the source path.

Examples

Find and remove duplicate files from the specified path, notify when the operation finishes and play a notification sound:

clup remove -s c:\users\myname\downloads -v -b

Find duplicate files from the current directory and save a detailed log:

clup list --source-current --logdir-root -v

Dependencies

The libraries use the following libraries and NuGet packages:

• CommandLineParser
• JetBrains.Annotations