[lug] replacing dupes with links

[Quentin Hartman]

There's http://freedup.org . But I haven't used it. Seems promising tho.

not sure if it's applicable to your situation, but rdiff-backup
automatically creates nicely de-duped backups of a source at a destination,
each one traversable as a normal directory structure. Might be another tool
that could inform your decision.

QH

On Mon, Mar 12, 2018 at 3:22 PM, <mad.scientist.at.large at tutanota.com>
wrote:

> For organizational purposes i'm trying to deal with a partition that has
> many copies of each file in various subdirectories.  I'd like a way to
> replace all but one instance of a given file with a link.  Is there an easy
> way to do this?  I'm thinking i can use fdupes and some scripting.  Any
> better ideas or already written shellscripts or programs?
>
>  The partition has several hundred gig of files (several hundered thousand
> files including dupes) nicely sorted and grouped but consuming excess
> space.  Run time isn't much of an issue as this machine can run unattended
> overnight.  I could use fslint with a lot of user involvement but obviously
> that would be tedious.
>
>
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