cardinal_pythonlib.tools.remove_duplicate_files

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Command-line tool to remove duplicate files from a path.

Largely based on https://code.activestate.com/recipes/362459-dupinator-detect-and-delete-duplicate-files/ # noqa

cardinal_pythonlib.tools.remove_duplicate_files.deduplicate(directories: List[str], recursive: bool, dummy_run: bool) → None[source]

De-duplicate files within one or more directories. Remove files that are identical to ones already considered.

Parameters:

  • directories – list of directories to process

  • recursive – process subdirectories (recursively)?

  • dummy_run – say what it’ll do, but don’t do it

cardinal_pythonlib.tools.remove_duplicate_files.main() → None[source]

Command-line processor. See --help for details.