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http://www.webmastersupport.com a simple script to find duplicate files (even if they are renamed) in a given location with python.
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#!/usr/bin/env python | |
# A simple python script to list duplicate files for a given path | |
# This is useful to find music, videos, pictures etc that may have different names or locations but same content. | |
# Usage: $python find_dupes.py <windows or unix path> | |
# http://www.webmastersupport.com | |
__author__ = 'abhishek.dujari' | |
import os | |
import sys | |
import hashlib | |
def traverse(path): | |
digest = {} | |
duplicates = {} | |
rootdir = path | |
count = 0 | |
for root, subFolders, files in os.walk(rootdir): | |
#print root | |
for folder in subFolders: | |
#print "folder %s" % folder | |
pass | |
for filename in files: | |
count = count+1 | |
sys.stdout.write("%s \r" % (count)) | |
sys.stdout.flush() | |
filename = os.path.join(root,filename) | |
try: | |
filesum = hashlib.sha256(open(filename,'rb').read()).digest() | |
if filesum in digest.values(): | |
for file2name, hexdigest in digest.iteritems(): | |
if hexdigest == filesum: | |
duplicates[filename] = file2name | |
else: | |
digest[filename] = filesum | |
except: | |
pass | |
return duplicates | |
if __name__ == '__main__': | |
dupes = traverse(sys.argv[1]) | |
for k,v in dupes.iteritems(): | |
print "%s (duplicates) %s" %(k,v) |
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