rmlint finds space waste and other broken things on your filesystem and offers to remove it.
Features:
Finds…
- …Duplicate Files and duplicate directories.
- …Nonstripped binaries (i.e. binaries with debug symbols)
- …Broken symbolic links.
- …Empty files and directories.
- …Files with broken user or/and group ID.
Differences to other duplicate finders:
- Extremely fast (no exaggeration, we promise!)
- Paranoia mode for those who do not trust hashsums.
- Many output formats.
- No interactivity.
- Search for files only newer than a certain
mtime. - Many ways to handle duplicates.
- Caching and replaying.
btrfssupport.- ...
It runs and compiles under most Unices, including Linux, FreeBSD and Darwin. The main target is Linux though, some optimisations might not be available elsewhere.
Here's a list of developers to blame:
| Christopher Pahl | https://github.com/sahib | 2010-2017 |
| Daniel Thomas | https://github.com/SeeSpotRun | 2014-2017 |
| Jared Van Bortel | https://github.com/cebtenzzre | 2021-2025 |
There are some other people that helped us of course. Please see the AUTHORS distributed along rmlint.
rmlint is licensed under the conditions of the GPLv3. See the COPYING file distributed along the source for details.