Similar

Similar allows to find which files are similar inside a directory.

Usage

Similar uses Xapian to index the files in [path]. It then computes the relevance between the terms of every pair of files. A directed similarity graph is built with a vertex for each indexed file. An edge A->B exists iff relevance of B for the terms in A is higher than [threshold]. similar returns the strong connected components of the similarity graph.

usage: similar [path] [threshold]
 [path]      : the directory that contains the files to compare.
 [threshold] : cut-off percentage that decides if two files
               are similar (at 100 %, files must be really close to 
               be considered similar)

Install Similar

Dependencies

To build Similar you need to install the following libraries:

• libxapian-dev

• libboost-dev

• libboost-filesystem-dev

• libboost-graph-dev

• libboost-system-dev

On Debian, you can type:

$ sudo apt-get install libxapian-dev libboost-dev libboost-filesystem-dev libboost-graph-dev libboost-system-dev 

Building

After installing dependencies, just type

$ ./autogen.sh
$ ./configure
$ make 
$ make install