rmlint

rmlint finds space waste and other broken things on your filesystem and offersto remove it.

Features:

Finds…

• …Duplicate Files and duplicate directories.
• …Nonstripped binaries (i.e. binaries with debug symbols)
• …Broken symbolic links.
• …Empty files and directories.
• …Files with broken user or/and group ID.

Differences to other duplicate finders:

• Extremely fast (no exaggeration, we promise!)
• Paranoia mode for those who do not trust hashsums.
• Many output formats.
• No interactivity.
• Search for files only newer than a certain mtime.
• Many ways to handle duplicates.
• Caching and replaying.
• btrfs support.
• ...

It runs and compiles under most Unices, including Linux, FreeBSD and Darwin.The main target is Linux though, some optimisations might not be availableelsewhere.

INSTALLATION

Chances are that you might have rmlint already as readily made package in yourfavourite distribution. If not, you might considercompiling it from source.

DOCUMENTATION

Detailed documentation is available on:

http://rmlint.rtfd.org

Most features you'll ever need are covered in the tutorial:

http://rmlint.rtfd.org/en/latest/tutorial.html

An online version of the manpage is available at:

http://rmlint.rtfd.org/en/latest/rmlint.1.html

Sometimes we can be reached via IRC: #rmlint on irc.freenode.net.

BUGS

If you found bugs, having trouble running rmlint or want to suggest newfeatures please read this.

Also read the BUGS section of the manpageto find out how to provide good debug information.

AUTHORS

Here's a list of developers to blame:

There are some other people that helped us of course.Please see the AUTHORS distributed along rmlint.

LICENSE

rmlint is licensed under the conditions of theGPLv3.See theCOPYINGfile distributed along the source for details.