Comments on: 6 Best Tools to Find and Remove Duplicate Files in Linux

By: bubba

bubba — Wed, 06 Aug 2025 23:41:38 +0000

I appreciate the article and I’m going to try rdfind with hardlinks. I know this article is a bit older, but I’d like to point out a wording correction:

For fdupes -r, you wrote:

‘To search files recursively, you will have to specify the -r option like this.’

Instead of ‘files,’ it should say ‘subdirectories’.

By: brett

brett — Fri, 06 Jun 2025 14:31:08 +0000

In reply to Ravi Saive.

Also dupeGuru is not in the Jammy repos but can be had at https://launchpad.net/~dupeguru/+archive/ubuntu/ppa/+packages

By: Ravi Saive

Ravi Saive — Sat, 23 Dec 2023 05:51:56 +0000

In reply to DRS.

@Drs,

Thanks for the heads-up! I appreciate the recommendation. I’ll definitely check out Czkawka in the Software Manager.

Keeping things up-to-date is always a plus..

By: DRS

DRS — Thu, 21 Dec 2023 13:18:26 +0000

There's an alternative (up-to-date) to fslint it's called Czkawka and can be found in the Software Manager in Linux Minx (21.2). It's quite similar to fslint but more updated.

By: Ravi Saive

Ravi Saive — Mon, 03 Jul 2023 04:13:06 +0000

In reply to SenileOtaku. @Sentile, I have already added a note about fsline tool, please read:

However, it’s important to note that as of my knowledge cutoff in September 2022, FSlint was last updated in 2013 and may not be actively maintained or compatible with newer Linux distributions.