On 03/09/2014 09:16 PM, David Z wrote: > Package: fslint > Version: 2.42-2 > Severity: wishlist > Tags: upstream > > I know it would be a lot of work. > > BUT - > > It would be amazing if FSLint output duplicate information by directory. > > For instance, I might have two dirs, "~/Documents/linux guides" and > "~/Downloads/completed torrents/linux guides torrent". Let's say there is a > lot > of redunandcy of file contents between these directories - perhaps they're > exact duplicates, or maybe all the files in one of the dirs exists in the > other, which also has some additional files. > > It would be immensely useful if FSLint could recognize an entire DIRECTORY as > being redundant. This would speed up file cleanup operations enormously. As it > stands now, this is most of what I do with FSLint, and I primarily do it with > md5sum in the terminal after I see file duplicates in two directories that I > know are both "sets" of files. > > If FSLint could highlight full directories as having their contents exist > entirely in another directory, it would only take a moment to delete the > redundant directory, with no additional checks necessary. I would love to see > this feature! > > Thank you all so much for all your work on this wonderful program!
This is useful and already tracked at: http://code.google.com/p/fslint/issues/detail?id=25 I've not got time to implement it at present though. thanks, Pádraig. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
