Some files on a Linux system can appear in more than one location. Follow these instructions to find and identify these "identical twins" and learn why hard links can be so advantageous. Identifying ...

Copies of files sometimes represent a big waste of disk space and can cause confusion if you want to make updates. Here are six commands to help you identify these files. In a recent post, we looked ...

If you are using a PC for a long time, files with the same contents are saved around HDD and SSD, and sometimes wastefully consuming the capacity of the drive. However, it is difficult to confirm and ...

You may find yourself in a situation where you remember the content of a file but not its name. Linux offers various commands to help you find files based on specific text strings within them. By ...

Many of us have gone through the ritual of finding and thinking about which files to keep and which to get rid of when it comes to making space in our computers for something else. One of the major ...

Duplicate File Hunter is a welcome app indeed. While other operating systems have commands to root out duplicate files (instantaneously in the case of Linux), it's next to impossible to do so in ...

Stevey asked the Answer Line forum for advise on finding and removing duplicate files. A hard drive is like a family garage–junk expands to fill available space. An SSD behaves very much the same way, ...