isolated-files

find isolated files with no duplicate between multiple folders

simple script that I use to find files that do not exist in source-folders but do exist in target folders. So its like searching for non-duplicates.

• it will compare files only based on filename and filesize (that was intended because I had to work with very large files)
• it work recursively, not depending on the pathes where files are stored in
• you can use multiple source or target folders (just --target folder2 --target folder3)
• you can also use an ssh folder for example --source myserver:folder1 where myserver must be configured as host in ssh config
• there isn't any writing command used, so you can use it without fear of data loss (but of course, I wont take any responsibility)

Example

folder1
- file1.txt
- file2.txt
- file3.txt # this file is only in folder1

folder2
- file1.txt
- file2.txt
- file4.txt # this file is only in folder2

folder3
- file2.txt

Usage

$ isolated-files.py --source folder1 --target folder2 --target folder3
#/folder2/file4.txt

you can use -l /copy/folder/path to specify a folder where the found files are hardlinked to