Python > remove-duplicates.py

by David Thomas on

remove-duplicates.py is a small Python script which deletes files with the same size and MD5 checksum.

It recursively processes the specified directory and its sub-directories.

If you want to preserve certain files, you need to ensure that they’re last in the directory list.

Example

To recursively remove all duplicate files from the current directory:

$ remove-duplicates.py ./photos/