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Downloads:
1,350
Downloads of v 1.23.0.20170921:
779
Last Update:
21 Sep 2017
Package Maintainer(s):
Software Author(s):
- Matthias Wandel
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FindDupe
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Downloads:
1,350
Downloads of v 1.23.0.20170921:
779
Maintainer(s):
Software Author(s):
- Matthias Wandel
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To install FindDupe, run the following command from the command line or from PowerShell:
To upgrade FindDupe, run the following command from the command line or from PowerShell:
To uninstall FindDupe, run the following command from the command line or from PowerShell:
NOTE: This applies to both open source and commercial editions of Chocolatey.
1. Ensure you are set for organizational deployment
Please see the organizational deployment guide
2. Get the package into your environment-
Open Source or Commercial:
- Proxy Repository - Create a proxy nuget repository on Nexus, Artifactory Pro, or a proxy Chocolatey repository on ProGet. Point your upstream to https://community.chocolatey.org/api/v2. Packages cache on first access automatically. Make sure your choco clients are using your proxy repository as a source and NOT the default community repository. See source command for more information.
- You can also just download the package and push it to a repository Download
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Open Source
- Download the Package Download
- Follow manual internalization instructions
-
Package Internalizer (C4B)
- Run
choco download finddupe --internalize --source=https://community.chocolatey.org/api/v2
(additional options) - Run
choco push --source="'http://internal/odata/repo'"
for package and dependencies - Automate package internalization
- Run
3. Enter your internal repository url
(this should look similar to https://community.chocolatey.org/api/v2)
4. Choose your deployment method:
choco upgrade finddupe -y --source="'STEP 3 URL'" [other options]
See options you can pass to upgrade.
See best practices for scripting.
Add this to a PowerShell script or use a Batch script with tools and in places where you are calling directly to Chocolatey. If you are integrating, keep in mind enhanced exit codes.
If you do use a PowerShell script, use the following to ensure bad exit codes are shown as failures:
choco upgrade finddupe -y --source="'STEP 3 URL'"
$exitCode = $LASTEXITCODE
Write-Verbose "Exit code was $exitCode"
$validExitCodes = @(0, 1605, 1614, 1641, 3010)
if ($validExitCodes -contains $exitCode) {
Exit 0
}
Exit $exitCode
- name: Ensure finddupe installed
win_chocolatey:
name: finddupe
state: present
version: 1.23.0.20170921
source: STEP 3 URL
See docs at https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/modules/win_chocolatey_module.html.
chocolatey_package 'finddupe' do
action :install
version '1.23.0.20170921'
source 'STEP 3 URL'
end
See docs at https://docs.chef.io/resource_chocolatey_package.html.
Chocolatey::Ensure-Package
(
Name: finddupe,
Version: 1.23.0.20170921,
Source: STEP 3 URL
);
Requires Otter Chocolatey Extension. See docs at https://inedo.com/den/otter/chocolatey.
cChocoPackageInstaller finddupe
{
Name = 'finddupe'
Ensure = 'Present'
Version = '1.23.0.20170921'
Source = 'STEP 3 URL'
}
Requires cChoco DSC Resource. See docs at https://github.com/chocolatey/cChoco.
package { 'finddupe':
provider => 'chocolatey',
ensure => '1.23.0.20170921',
source => 'STEP 3 URL',
}
Requires Puppet Chocolatey Provider module. See docs at https://forge.puppet.com/puppetlabs/chocolatey.
salt '*' chocolatey.install finddupe version="1.23.0.20170921" source="STEP 3 URL"
See docs at https://docs.saltstack.com/en/latest/ref/modules/all/salt.modules.chocolatey.html.
5. If applicable - Chocolatey configuration/installation
See infrastructure management matrix for Chocolatey configuration elements and examples.
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This package was approved as a trusted package on 01 Nov 2019.
Finddupe is a commandline tool for quick detection of duplicate files on a hard drive under Windows. Duplicate files can be detected, hardlinked, or deleted. Finddupe can also search for hardlinked files on your computer.
Use cases:
- Deleting duplicate files: When working thru somebody elses photo collection, or MP3 collection, this tool is useful for deleting the files that are duplicate. Depending on how the media is organized, there can be a lot of duplicate files in a collection.
- Freeing hard drive space: Sometimes its intentional to have certain media in multiple places. By running finddupe, and hard linking the identical files, you can keep the files in multiple places, while only having one physical copy on the hard drive.
- Detecting changed files for backup: Finddupe is useful for detecting which files have changed and need backing up. Simply back up the media, and then run finddupe to eliminate those files in the copy that are already contained in a previous backup.
- Detecting hardlinked groups of files: Unknown to most, the winodws NTFS file system has the ability to hard link files together. If you use finddupe with the -listlink option, finddupe will search for files that appear in multiple places as hard links.
$packageName = 'finddupe'
$url = 'http://www.sentex.net/~mwandel/finddupe/finddupe.exe'
$checksum = 'bac85b0f046150315dbf592c381e1e717bf41401a32d7fae19e67f582a2c0128'
$checksumType = 'sha256'
$toolsDir = "$(Split-Path -parent $MyInvocation.MyCommand.Definition)"
$installFile = Join-Path $toolsDir "$($packageName).exe"
Get-ChocolateyWebFile -PackageName "$packageName" `
-FileFullPath "$installFile" `
-Url "$url" `
-Checksum "$checksum" `
-ChecksumType "$checksumType"
Log in or click on link to see number of positives.
- finddupe.exe (bac85b0f0461) - ## / 63
- finddupe.1.23.0.20170921.nupkg (1314e360e8c3) - ## / 60
In cases where actual malware is found, the packages are subject to removal. Software sometimes has false positives. Moderators do not necessarily validate the safety of the underlying software, only that a package retrieves software from the official distribution point and/or validate embedded software against official distribution point (where distribution rights allow redistribution).
Chocolatey Pro provides runtime protection from possible malware.
Version | Downloads | Last Updated | Status |
---|---|---|---|
FindDupe 1.23.0.20170921 | 779 | Thursday, September 21, 2017 | Approved |
FindDupe 1.23 | 571 | Sunday, January 11, 2015 | Approved |
© Matthias Wandel
Program
- No changes
Package
- Added checksum
- Cleaned up nuspec
This package has no dependencies.
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