🧹 cleaner_z

Just a random duplicate file removal tool no one asked for. Programemd in Zig.

❓ What? How? Why?

• What: This is a duplicate file removal tool programmed, it basically detects files that have the exact same contents and can just list them or also remove duplicates automatically.
• How: Internally, the tool hashes file contents using Wyhash and stores all hashes in a list, then compares every hash with the other one, if there's a match then that means there's a duplicate.
• Why: Just a little project I made in one day to get used to the syntax. Though it's highly unpolished I guess I at least got more used to Zig's differences when compared to C.

🪁 Usage

You can the tool with -h/--help to see the help output:

-h, --help          Show this help message
-r, --remove        Not only find duplicate files, also remove them
-v, --verbose       Show verbose messages
-f, --force         Forces file removal without asking for confirmation
-q, --quiet         Supresses tool banner and most output except confirmation prompts, duplicate files, and other essential messages
<path>              Where to search for duplicates, REQUIRED

Really simple to understand everything from the help output.

📦 Installation / Building

I don't know why you would like to install this tool as there are likely more serious and polished open-source alternatives out there. But just in case, you can simply clone this Github repository and then run zig build:

git clone https://github.com/ordinary-hacker/cleaner_z
cd cleaner_z
zig build