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FDUPES is a lightweight command-line utility that helps users find and optionally delete duplicate files within specified directories by comparing file contents, which can be extremely useful for cleaning up storage clutter or organizing large collections of files. It works by scanning directories and subdirectories, identifying sets of files with identical content through size and hash comparisons, and then listing them together so users can examine duplicates. Once duplicates are identified, the tool offers interactive deletion options where users can choose which copy to keep and which to remove, or apply flags to automate deletion while preserving a single instance. Because it operates directly on file content rather than just filenames, fdupes can accurately detect true copies and guide cleaning operations in data cleanup or migration tasks. ...

...So for files which don't start to differ by growing at the tail it reduces read operations greatly compared to hash-based comparision (i.e. test case: 40GB of files, 16GB RAM, many differences: initial compare (uncached by OS) around 300sec, subsequent compare (relevant file parts cached by OS) ca. 2sec) Note: this program is not related to lsdup