[Discuss] fdupes feature request or alternative

[Murray Strome]

fdupes is very useful, but would be better if two additional features could be added:
In addition to the options provided (like tag the file in a block to be deleted with its number or a for all), help, q (for quit), the following two be especially valuable.
0 mark none of the files in the block to be preserved, i.e. delete them all
sometimes I see a block that has many copies of a file and I don't really want to preserve any of them.
w (or something else)  delete all the files currently tagged for deletion.
This would be especially useful if you have a huge number of files (right now I am working on 13,000 and have marked 3,000) and I would like to restart my computer. However, if I type q, it will exit without restarting.
Does anyone know if there is a variation or alternative to fdupes that will do something like this? Or is anyone up to the challenge of modifying the source code to enable me to accomplish this. My programming skills are far too rusty for me to attempt this. The source code is at: GitHub - adrianlopezroche/fdupes: FDUPES is a program for identifying or deleting duplicate files residing within specified directories.

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Thanks,
Murray Strome


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