Control: tags -1 + confirmed On Wed, 2023-11-08 at 12:29 -0300, Joao Eriberto Mota Filho wrote: > jdupes is a fork from fdupes. A bug was introduced by the initial > fork some years ago. The current fdupes on Debian is already fixed. A > warning about this bug was sent by the jdupes upstream (Jody Bruchon) > for me via email message. > > The help option for jdupes says: > -d --delete: prompt user for files to preserve and delete all > others; [...] > > Using the command 'jdupes -d .', a prompt will appear: > > Set 1 of 1: keep which files? (1 - 5, [a]ll, [n]one, [l]ink all, > [s]ymlink all): > > It is a mistake to set 2-4 because the jdupes considers one file > only. Setting '2-4', the file 2 will be kept and the files 3 and 4 > will be deleted. The sentence 'keep which files? (1 - 5' induces the > users to use a range and it is not valid. Currently, jdupes is not > denying this behaviour and it is generating a data loss.
Please go ahead. Regards, Adam
