Adrian Lopez

The reason it isn't merged is the question of what to do should the link operation fail. The program would be breaking the promise that files will be linked instead...

There's another problem: making sure not to overwrite an existing file when the dupe is renamed. Easy with rename2 on Linux, but I can't find a portable call that's guaranteed...

That's the last step. First you move the dupe aside by renaming it. The choice of new name is critical. On Mon, Apr 17, 2017, 4:40 PM Wout Mertens wrote:...

There's currently no way to do this. For those like Tomas who are looking to delete only files above a certain size, the new --minsize option may prove useful. On...

Do you know for a fact that there are duplicates in that directory?

Looks like it should be a matter of adding another option to --order / -o to order by time in reverse. On May 26, 2015 6:05 PM, "Jody Bruchon" [email protected]...

OK. I just ran fdupes and it looks like the default sort order would do what guettli wants: --order=time (which is the default) sorts from older to newer according to...

PS - This applies to the version of fdupes that is currently on git (master). Not all distros have those changes yet, so guettli: please check before attempting to run...

It looks like you want fdupes to sort by filename, in reverse. I could do it, but it would mean adding more sorting options (alphabetical by itself wouldn't work, as...

I see num1 and num2 are 1024 bytes long with no bounds checking. That's a buffer overflow waiting to happen. The reference to filename length is not because I think...