Duplicate File Finder

Educational project with googletest, doxygen and boost

Build local Linux

sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install cmake libgtest-dev libboost-all-dev libboost-regex-dev -y

cd DuplicateFileFinder
mkdir build && cd build

cmake ..

# build release
cmake --build . --config Release

# build deb-package
cmake --build . --target package

Build local Windows

vcpkg install gtest boost-program-options boost-filesystem boost-uuid boost-crc boost-regex
vcpkg integrate install

cd DuplicateFileFinder
mkdir build && cd build

cmake .. -DCMAKE_TOOLCHAIN_FILE="path/to/vcpkg/scripts/buildsystems/vcpkg.cmake"

# build release
cmake --build . --config Release

Arguments

The program searches for duplicate files in specified directories. The program takes the following arguments:

• --help - Produce help message.
• --directories or -D - Directories to scan.
• --exclude or -E - Directories to exclude from finding.
• --deep-scan - 1 to including subdirectories, 0 to search only in the specified directory.
• --min-file-size or -F - Minimum file size in bytes that will included when searching.
• --file-mask or -M - File search mask, supports regular expressions.
• --block-size or -S - Block size for reading files.
• --hashing-type or -H - Hashing type 1 to md5, 0 to crc32.

Example:

DuplicateFileFinder -D /some/path -E exclude_dir --deep-scan 1 -F 4 -S 6 -H 1