Sort folders / files

[LazyLizard14 11]

I in the process of sorting out the mess on my NAS where multiple family members stored their downloads on - more than 1000 files / folders in one folder. There are many duplicate files, tho not easy to identify. Like for example take foldernames of movies: "Movie1_720p", Movie1_1080p" etc.

Same with Backups of various computers, smartphones etc.

So it is obvious that I cannot use date or size as a criteria. Basically I look for a tool that allows highly customizeable search functions so it is able to show me all the folders in an exlorer-like style that have the first X characters in common. Then I can manually choose which to keep and what is garbage.

Any ideas?

[OmniNegro 155]

I do not recall if the free trial will work or if you have to pay before it works for this, but CCleaner works wonders for this sort of thing.

https://www.piriform.com/ccleaner

 

 

Note that if you have loads of time, checking "Content" will look at the actual files themselves and hash them to see if there are any duplicates. But this is basically reading the entire content of the drive/partition/location specified. On a NAS this could take a very long time.

[OpenSourcerer 1442]

CCleaner is free, all features work without payment.

[LazyLizard14 11]

None of those standard tools does this.

Well in case somebody interested I post the shell command that did the trick:

find . - maxdepth 1 -type d -print0 | sort -z | uniq -zD -w 7 | tr '\0' '\n'

'-w 7' uses the first 7 characters (the first two are always './' )