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Feature Request: Find dupes only across directories

Open Isaac-D-Cohen opened this issue 2 years ago • 3 comments

Would it be possible to add an option that makes fdupes only search across the directories given on the command line and not within them?

This would make it possible to give fdupes two directories which both have duplicates within them but ask it to only find the duplicates across them - the files in A that are also in B.

Isaac-D-Cohen avatar Oct 17 '22 17:10 Isaac-D-Cohen

You can pass two folders and without the ''recurse'' flag you seem to get the intended results?

EdwinKM avatar Nov 28 '22 15:11 EdwinKM

The request as written is identical to requests I've seen for a "source" directory that no action is taken within but in which matches are checked against. It's not the same as no recursion.

jbruchon avatar Nov 28 '22 15:11 jbruchon

I am also interested in this feature.

archie83 avatar Jan 08 '23 07:01 archie83