Introduction
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stupid_dupes is a shell script that copies the most basic capabilities of
jdupes. It is inefficient. It barely has enough features to be worthy of
using the word "features" at all. Despite all of that, it's pretty safe
and produces the same simple match set printouts as jdupes.

This program illustrates how a duplicate scanner works on a basic level.
It has a minimal set of requirements:

* GNU bash
* find with support for -type and -maxdepth
* stat
* cat
* jodyhash (or any other program that outputs ONLY a hash)
* dd (for partial hashing)

It's slow.

Real slow.

You're welcome.

Please consider financially supporting continued development of
stupid_dupes (like you'd spend the money so smartly otherwise):

https://www.subscribestar.com/JodyBruchon


Contact information
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For stupid_dupes inquiries, contact Jody Bruchon <jody@jodybruchon.com>
and be sure to say something really stupid when you do.


Legal information and software license
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Copyright (C) 2020-2025 by Jody Bruchon <jody@jodybruchon.com> and contributors
and for some reason Jody is willing to admit to writing it.

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