Table of contents

• Introduction
• Features
• Usage example
• Requirements and installation
• Bugs reports and contributions
• Credits and license
• Changelog

Introduction

dhunter (pronounced The Hunter) is [d]uplicate [hunter] utility, designed to help scanning and processing large sets of files. Uses content based file duplicates matching and smart caching for faster directory scanning, data changes detection and processing.

Features

• Content based file matching (sha256)
• Designed to work with lot of data:
  • caches folder scaning results for quick reuse/rescan
  • directory scanning can be aborted and resumed at any moment
• Smart content filters
  • Ignores zero length files and symlinks
  • Ignores folders like .git, .cvs, .svn
  • Supports file size based (min and/or max) filtering
  • Per folder exlusion via .dhunterignore file

Credits and license

• Written and copyrighted ©2018-2019 by Marcin Orlowski
• dhunter is open-sourced software licensed under the MIT license