node-dedupredup

Solution for removing duplicates and rebuilding the directory in NodeJS. Useful for directories and repositories with duplicate files or folders.

Installation

npm install node-dedupredup

API

Example

const { dedup, redup } = require('node-dedupredup');
dedup('directory/with/duplicates');
redup('previously/deduped/directory/to/rebuild');

When running dedup, a .redup.json file will be created at the root of the directory specified as the argument. This JSON file will contain all of the information for rebuilding the directory. The redup method will not work without a .redup.json file.

dedup

• Type: function
• Paramaters: dir: string

The dedup function will take the dir given and remove duplicate files. The result that will be returned will be the contents of the new .redup.json (parsed).

redup

• Type: function
• Paramaters: dir: string

The redup function will rebuild the dir directory given using the .redup.json present.

Related

See the CLI for this package: dedupredup-cli