RDedupe

A Rust based deduplication tool

Goals

• Build a multiplatform, fast deduplication tool that uses Rust parallelization.

Current Status

• Added
• Added progress bar

Future Improvements

• Add a GUI
• Add a web interface
• Fix GitHub Actions Build process to not fail silently!
• Use Polars DataFrame and include statistics about files and generate a CSV report.
• Store logs about actions performed across multiple runs

Building and Running

• Build: cd into rdedupe and run make all
• Run: cargo run -- dedupe --path tests --pattern .txt
• Run tests: make test

OS X Install

• Install rust via rustup
• Add to ~/.cargo/config

[target.x86_64-apple-darwin]
rustflags = [
  "-C", "link-arg=-undefined",
  "-C", "link-arg=dynamic_lookup",
]

[target.aarch64-apple-darwin]
rustflags = [
  "-C", "link-arg=-undefined",
  "-C", "link-arg=dynamic_lookup",
]

• run make all in rdedupe directory