Installing FSlint

If you’re using any mainstream Linux distro or derivatives from those, you will have a really easy time using this tool. Run the commands according to your distro.

• Ubuntu

sudo apt install fslint

• Debian

sudo apt-get install fslint

• OpenSUSE

sudo zypper install fslint

• Fedora

sudo dnf install fslint

• Arch Linux

sudo pacman -S fslint

• Other Linux distros

wget http://www.pixelbeat.org/fslint/fslint-2.46.tar.xz

tar -xf fslint-2.46.tar.xz
cd fslint-2.46
cd po && make
./fslint-gui

Using FSlint

FSlint is a GUI tool that makes the life of selecting and removing all the unnecessary duplicate files a lot easier. It obviously makes sense as the CLI would end up misleading you and deleting an important file (unless you’re an expert one).

After installation is complete, start the program.

Note that FSlint will work on directories that you select to scan. The more directories you select, the more time it’ll take for looking up for duplicate files. Please be patient while the scanning completes.

From the left panel, you can choose to perform lots of actions on your files. For example, “Bad names”, “Temp files” etc.

You can also merge duplicate files into one single file, or delete the duplicate one(s) with the tool.

Another really important feature of FSlint is the cleaning whitespace. The option is available at the bottom of the top panel. Using this facility, you can easily reduce file sizes by deleting whitespace (long spaces between texts).

Enjoy.

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