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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...

Duplicate Files Finder is a cross-platform application for finding and removing duplicate files by deleting, creating hardlinks or creating symbolic links. A special algorithm minimizes the amount of data read from disk, so the program is very fast.

...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