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Comment by coryrc | Hacker News Reader

Fdupes does that too

Unfortunately fdupes does not do this or at least nothing in their docs points to this functionality.

I say unfortunately because before writing duphard, I tested fdupes and a couple other utilities (duff and duperemove) but none offered the functionality I needed.

Ah, my mistake, it's jdupes (maintained/improved fork of fdupes):

  -L --linkhard     hard link all duplicate files without prompting

Ah, thank you! I didn't know about it, it looks good and is part of debian and ubuntu repos (so easy to install).

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