Duplicate search

[harryray2]

Is it possible to find duplicates that aren't exactly the same? Possibly some sort of 'fuzzy' search.
For example:

Freedailymotiondownload.exe 1.2.3.4
Freedailymotiondownload.exe 2.3.4.5
Freedailymotiondownload.exe

or:

test Freedailymotiondownload.exe 1.2.3.4
tester Freedailymotiondownload.exe 1.2.3.4
testing Freedailymotiondownload.exe.1234

[void]

No.

I will consider adding support to find duplicates with a fuzzy match.

Thank you for the suggestion.



For now, please try the following search:

regex:\b([a-z0-9_\.\-]+\.exe) addcolumn:a a:=$1: dupe:column-a

This will find files where <word>.exe is duplicated.

[harryray2]

Thanks David, a fuzzy search would be brilliant..

Is there a way of refining this so that it only shows results that are not exact duplicates?

[void]

No.

[harryray2]

Is there anyone in Everything land that's aware of any (preferably free) programme that has a fuzzy search to find dupes that aren't exact please?

Thanks.

[therube]

Depends how you define "fuzzy".

regex:freedaily.*\.exe.*\d{0,}

would be sufficient to find:

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Freedailymotiondownload.exe 1.2.3.4
Freedailymotiondownload.exe 2.3.4.5
Freedailymotiondownload.exe
test Freedailymotiondownload.exe 1.2.3.4
tester Freedailymotiondownload.exe 1.2.3.4
testing Freedailymotiondownload.exe.1234

If you make your search lax enough to find all permutations of what you want,
but specific enough to not find anything you do not want, you're "fuzzy".

regex:\.exe.*\d{0,} name:seamonkey

or

regex:\.exe.*\d{0,} name:seamonkey dupe:size

or

regex:\.exe.*\d{0,} name:seamonkey dupe:sha1

all return:

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seamonkey-2.1b2pre.en-US.win32.installer-0128.exe
seamonkey-2.1b2pre.en-US.win32.installer.exe.ADS

(ADS here means the file came down with an Alternate Data Streams,
where the other "version" did not.)

[kazzybash]

Is there anyone in Everything land that's aware of any (preferably free) programme that has a fuzzy search to find dupes that aren't exact please?

Maybe Alldup is able to do what you are looking for (it has a function for images, but I am not sure if it has a function for other filetypes).

regards, kazzy