fiche

Directory comparison tools. Fiche uses hashes based comparison.

Dependencies:

xlsxwriter => https://xlsxwriter.readthedocs.org/

Installation on Debian:

First install all the needed packages

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install python3 python3-pip python3-setuptools
sudo pip3 install xlsxwriter

Download fiche and unzip it

wget https://github.com/tbores/fiche/archive/master.zip
unzip master.zip

Usage examples:

Calculate md5sum of all files in a directory:

python3 fiche.py path/to/directory

Exclude .txt and .png files from the analysis:

python3 fiche.py --ignore *.txt *.png path/to/directory

Find duplicated files in a directorory:

python3 fiche.py --duplicates path/to/directory

Compare files of two directories:

python3 fiche.py left_directory right_directory

Compare files of two directories, find duplicated files in each directory and export results in a xlsx

python3 fiche.py --xlsx output/results.xlsx --duplicates left_directory right_directory