Erik's Partial Archive Collator

Erik's Partial Archive Collator takes a directory as an argument, then walks through it looking for duplicate.
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  • License:
  • GPL
  • Price:
  • FREE
  • Publisher Name:
  • Erik Greenwald
  • Publisher web site:
  • http://math.missouristate.edu/~erik/software.php?id=63

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Erik's Partial Archive Collator Description

Erik's Partial Archive Collator takes a directory as an argument, then walks through it looking for duplicate. Erik's Partial Archive Collator takes a directory as an argument, then walks through it looking for duplicate and partially duplicate files.If Erik's Partial Archive Collator finds exact duplicates, it deletes one and creates a hard link to the other, minimizing disk usage.If it finds a pair of files where the larger file contains the entire contents of the smaller file, it will prompts to combine them and create a hard link.WARNING: This software has not been as well tested as it should be, and does a lot of linking and unlinking. It's also abusive on ram. It may screw up your archive, or even OOM your machine. Use with caution, on a copy of your archive if possible.What's New in This Release:· This release re-organizes the source (now a src/ directory), a new -w flag to set the progress bar width, support for OS X 10.3 and 10.4, and various minor bugfixes.


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