Date: 2020oct12 OS: Linux Keywords: duplicate, compact, space Q. Linux: find duplicate files (photos, videos, etc) A. Install the `fdupes` package and for example, run:

cd ~/videos fdupes -r .

Generally:

fdupes [options] <directories>

See `man fdupes` for more options

Searches the given path for duplicate files. Such files are found by comparing file sizes and MD5 signatures, followed by a byte-by-byte comparison.

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