[lug] replacing dupes with links

[David L. Willson]

`fslint` does exactly that, *and* it will allow you to do all your dupes at once, so if you have many different files all with many dupes, you'll be able to de-dupe them all, instantly. Be careful though, you can also delete them all, instantly. That option was disappointingly attractive to my quickly clicking finger, once. 

- https://www.pixelbeat.org/fslint/ 
- https://alternativeto.net/software/fslint/ 

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----- Original Message -----

> 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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