The littleutils include duplicate file finders, image optimizers, file rename tools, archive recompressors, a tempfile utility, file property tools and others.
This is free and open source software.
Features include:
- Several basic file property query utilities.
- Several file renaming utilities.
- Several lossless image file recompressors.
- Several compressed file recompressors.
- Duplicate file finders (repeats, repeats.pl, and repeats.py). repeats (written in C and sh), repeats.pl (written in perl and using routines from the CryptX module), and repeats.py (written in Python and using routines from the digest module) all search for duplicate files in one or more specified directories, using a three-, four-, or five-stage process. This process works as follows:
- Initially, all files in the specified directories (and all of their subdirectories) are listed as potential duplicates. In the first stage, all files with a unique filesize are declared unique and are removed from the list. In the optional second stage, any files which are actually a
hardlink to another file are removed, since they don’t actually take up any more disk space. In the third, all files for which the first 16384 (for repeats) or 1024 (for repeats.pl and repeats.py) bytes (both adjustable with the -m option) have a unique filehash are declared unique and are removed from the list. In the fourth, all files which have a
unique filehash (for the entire file) are declared unique and are removed from the list. And in the optional fifth stage, all files with matching filehashes are compared using cmp and are printed to stdout if they match. This process is much less disk and CPU intensive than creating full hashes for all files. It is implemented using a combination of the filehash, filenode, filesize, rep_hash, rep_node, rep_size, and tempname utilities. The duff, dupd, fdupes, jdupes, and rdfind commands utilize similar strategies.
- Initially, all files in the specified directories (and all of their subdirectories) are listed as potential duplicates. In the first stage, all files with a unique filesize are declared unique and are removed from the list. In the optional second stage, any files which are actually a
- Secure temporary file creation utility.
- PDF and image comparison utilities.
Website: sourceforge.net/projects/littleutils
Support:
Developer: Brian Lindholm and others
License: GNU General Public License v3.0
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