Duplicate Files Finder (DFF) v 1.75 By [DMN] (dimon@mail.lv) - Freeware
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This software considered you are familiarize with command line utilities
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Features:
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* Command line utility
* Searchs for duplicate files
* Searchs for different files (where one or more criterias must differ)
* Searchs for duplicate folders
* Has a lot of criteria that can be configured by user (including CRC)
* Output format template can be configured by user (See 3. to learn more)

You can get the latest version of this program at direct URL:
http://www.az.ru/dffpage/dff.zip

1. Fast starting & examples of usage:
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The general settings are already present in configuration file dff.ini
Following examples shows how to start search:

Ex1. Search for duplicate files on disks c:\ and d:\, all output redirected to file dup.bat
dff.exe *.* c:\ d:\ >dup.bat

Ex2. Search for duplicate files in folder "c:\Program Files" and subfolders.
dff.exe *.* "c:\Program Files"

usage syntax: dff.exe <Mask> <Dir1>... [DirN] [/s <SkipDir1>... [SkipDirN]] [/i] [/b]
/i - Show statistic after search
/b - Skip search in subdirectories
/s - List of directories to skip checking
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[!] place long file names in quotas.
[!] Make sure do NOT specify path like this: "c:\Program Files\"
			(with backslash before quote)         ^^
Windows does NOT understand parameter string in this way!
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2. Criteria description:
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If criteria have [-] sign than this criteria can be set to mode MUST NOT BE. 
For example if you set criteria FILE_NAME_IDENT to 1 and FILE_CRC_IDENT to -1 
then will be found files with identical names but with different CRCs.

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| Criteria		| Value	| Description
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| START_PATH_DIFFER 	| int	| If value > 0 only files that have different
|			|	| start paths (paths you give as params) will
|			|	| be displayed
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| FILE_NAME_IDENT [-]	| int	| If value > 0 only files that have identical 
|			|	| names will be displayed
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| FILE_SIZE_IDENT [-]	| int	| If value > 0 only files that have identical 
|			|	| sizes will be displayed
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| FILE_CRC_IDENT  [-]	| int	| If value > 0 only files that have identical
|			|	| CRC will be displayed
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| MIN_FILES_SIZE 	| int	| Set this value to minimal file size you
|			|	| want to display
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| FIRST_FOUND_TEMPL 	| str	| Template to display first found file
|			|	| in found files group. _NOTE_: Earlier will be
|			|	| found file ineren folders
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| OTHER_FOUND_TEMPL 	| str	| Template to display other files
|			|	| in found files group
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| ALLOW_COMPARE_FILES	| int	| If value > 0 identical files will be
|			|	| displayed. _NOTE_: Files considered to be
|			|	| identical based on current settings
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| ALLOW_COMPARE_FOLDERS	| int	| If value > 0 identical folders will be
|			|	| displayed _NOTE_: Folders size and CRC considered 
|			|	| to be identical if all files found using given
|			|	| settings (including file mask) are identical
|			|	| If criteria FILE_NAME_IDENT is set - folder
|			|	| names will be also compared as a file names.
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3. File displaying templates:
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In the templates following strings are replaced by specified values:

%path%		-	Replaced by path of found file
%name%		-	Replaced by name of found file
%size%		-	Replaced by size of found file
%crc%		-	Replaced by CRC of found file
%\n%		-	Replaced by new line
%num%		-	Replaced by file number in found group
%date%		-	Replaced by file date (format according to regional settings)
%time%		-	Replaced by file time (format according to regional settings)

You may use given (in dff.ini) template to create .bat files. These .bat files can be
used to delete your duplicates.

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Mail to dimon@mail.lv if you have any questions or offers 
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