# fclones mit Homebrew, apk, MacPorts, Nix, pacman, zypper, scoop installieren Prüfe Installationswege, Executables, Metadaten und Sicherheitshinweise für fclones in AI-Agent-Workflows. ## Installation ```sh sudo av install brew:fclones ``` Weitere Installationsbefehle: ### macOS - Homebrew (100%): ```sh brew install fclones ``` Evidenz: local Homebrew formula metadata - MacPorts (94%): ```sh sudo port install fclones ``` Evidenz: MacPorts ports tree: sysutils/fclones/Portfile from https://api.github.com/repos/macports/macports-ports/git/trees/master?recursive=1 ### Linux - apk (92%): ```sh sudo apk add fclones ``` Evidenz: Alpine Linux edge package indexes: fclones from https://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/edge/community/x86_64/APKINDEX.tar.gz - Nix (92%): ```sh nix profile install nixpkgs#fclones ``` Evidenz: nixpkgs package indexes: pkgs/by-name/fc/fclones/package.nix from https://api.github.com/repos/NixOS/nixpkgs/git/trees/master?recursive=1 - pacman (92%): ```sh sudo pacman -S fclones ``` Evidenz: Arch Linux sync databases: fclones from https://geo.mirror.pkgbuild.com/extra/os/x86_64/extra.db.tar.gz - zypper (92%): ```sh sudo zypper install fclones ``` Evidenz: openSUSE Tumbleweed package metadata: fclones from https://download.opensuse.org/tumbleweed/repo/oss/repodata/50b07339cb64c8ed4091bdbabddadc1ff5737b090e478818a195b40d8a3292861a879139b4a3987c31109699fde9fbf4a716367ddf4eef77da75f96e3193d6ed-primary.xml.zst ### Windows - Scoop (92%): ```sh scoop install extras/fclones ``` Evidenz: Scoop official bucket manifest trees: bucket/fclones.json from https://api.github.com/repos/ScoopInstaller/Extras/git/trees/master?recursive=1 ## Paketfakten - **Paketschlüssel:** brew:fclones - **Paketmanager:** Homebrew - **Version:** 0.35.0 - **Quellzusammenfassung:** Efficient Duplicate File Finder - **Homepage:** - **Repository:** - **Generiert:** 2026-08-03T19:37:03+00:00 ## Executables - fclones (Alias) ## Installationsverhalten - Bottle: nicht verfügbar ## Version und Aktualität - Seite generiert: 2026-08-03 - Manager-Version: 0.35.0 ## Projektgeschichte und Nutzung fclones is a Rust command-line duplicate-file finder and remover aimed at large local filesystems, where speed, safe review before deletion, and scriptable output matter. ### Projektgeschichte The public GitHub repository was created in June 2020, and its README describes the project as the command-line fclones tool plus core libraries, with a separate desktop frontend in fclones-gui. The early public tags start at 0.1.0 in June 2020, and later releases kept the same package identity while expanding the duplicate-finding and deduplication workflow. The project was written in Rust with explicit attention to modern storage behavior: parallel directory scanning, device-aware access strategy, path-prefix compression for very large file sets, page-cache-friendly scanning on Linux, multiple hash choices, and optional persistent hash caching. ### Adoptionsgeschichte The upstream README documents official installation through the Snap Store, Homebrew on macOS and Linux, release artifacts attached to GitHub releases, and cargo install. It also points to third-party Arch Linux, Alpine Linux, and NixOS packages, which fits fclones into the package-manager ecosystem around Rust CLI replacements for older Unix utilities. The supplied package metadata shows fclones present across Homebrew, MacPorts, Nix, Arch, Alpine, Scoop, and openSUSE-style packaging, reflecting adoption beyond a single operating system even though the README says it works best on Linux. ### Wie es verwendet wird The normal workflow is deliberately two-stage: run `fclones group` to produce a report, inspect or edit that report, then pipe it into `fclones remove`, `fclones move`, `fclones link`, or `fclones dedupe`. The README emphasizes `--dry-run`, JSON/CSV output, fdupes-compatible output, and integration with Unix tools such as `find`. Package users tend to care about fclones when scanning very large photo, media, backup, or build trees where naive duplicate finders are too slow or too memory-hungry. Its ability to replace duplicates with hard links, symbolic links, or filesystem reflinks makes it useful both for cleanup and for storage deduplication experiments. ### Warum Paket-Nerds sich dafür interessieren fclones represents the Rust-era file-management CLI pattern: a familiar Unix problem, packaged widely, with machine-readable output and careful performance notes instead of a small single-purpose C utility. For package maintainers, it is notable because performance depends on platform behavior. Linux gets the fullest optimization set, while Windows lacks reflink support and non-Linux systems miss some low-level storage-ordering and page-cache optimizations. ### Zeitleiste - 2020: Public repository created and early 0.1.x tags published. - 2021: README examples show the 0.12-era workflow of grouping first, then linking or removing duplicates. - 2025: Version 0.35.0 tag published. ### Related projects - The README names fclones-gui as the desktop frontend for the same duplicate-file-finding project. - The output format can be made compatible with fdupes, placing fclones in the same family as classic duplicate-file finders while adding Rust implementation and modern storage optimizations. ### Quellen - - - - - ## Sicherheitshinweise narrow executable package without higher-risk signals. - **Geiger-Risiko:** grün / niedrig - narrow executable package without higher-risk signals ## Andere Paketmanager-Einträge - Nix - fclones: normalized package name match | nixpkgs package indexes: pkgs/by-name/fc/fclones/package.nix from https://api.github.com/repos/NixOS/nixpkgs/git/trees/master?recursive=1 - apk - fclones - 0.35.0-r0: normalized package name match | Alpine Linux edge package indexes: fclones from https://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/edge/community/x86_64/APKINDEX.tar.gz | Efficient duplicate file finder | https://github.com/pkolaczk/fclones - apk - fclones-bash-completion - 0.35.0-r0: normalized package name match | Alpine Linux edge package indexes: fclones-bash-completion from https://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/edge/community/x86_64/APKINDEX.tar.gz | Bash completions for fclones | https://github.com/pkolaczk/fclones - apk - fclones-fish-completion - 0.35.0-r0: normalized package name match | Alpine Linux edge package indexes: fclones-fish-completion from https://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/edge/community/x86_64/APKINDEX.tar.gz | Fish completions for fclones | https://github.com/pkolaczk/fclones - apk - fclones-zsh-completion - 0.35.0-r0: normalized package name match | Alpine Linux edge package indexes: fclones-zsh-completion from https://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/edge/community/x86_64/APKINDEX.tar.gz | Zsh completions for fclones | https://github.com/pkolaczk/fclones - pacman - fclones - 0.35.0-2: normalized package name match | Arch Linux sync databases: fclones from https://geo.mirror.pkgbuild.com/extra/os/x86_64/extra.db.tar.gz | Efficient Duplicate File Finder | https://github.com/pkolaczk/fclones - zypper - fclones - 0.35.0-2.4: normalized package name match | openSUSE Tumbleweed package metadata: fclones from https://download.opensuse.org/tumbleweed/repo/oss/repodata/50b07339cb64c8ed4091bdbabddadc1ff5737b090e478818a195b40d8a3292861a879139b4a3987c31109699fde9fbf4a716367ddf4eef77da75f96e3193d6ed-primary.xml.zst | Finds duplicate, unique, under- or over-replicated files | https://github.com/pkolaczk/fclones - zypper - fclones-bash-completion - 0.35.0-2.4: normalized package name match | openSUSE Tumbleweed package metadata: fclones-bash-completion from https://download.opensuse.org/tumbleweed/repo/oss/repodata/50b07339cb64c8ed4091bdbabddadc1ff5737b090e478818a195b40d8a3292861a879139b4a3987c31109699fde9fbf4a716367ddf4eef77da75f96e3193d6ed-primary.xml.zst | Bash Completion for fclones | https://github.com/pkolaczk/fclones - zypper - fclones-fish-completion - 0.35.0-2.4: normalized package name match | openSUSE Tumbleweed package metadata: fclones-fish-completion from https://download.opensuse.org/tumbleweed/repo/oss/repodata/50b07339cb64c8ed4091bdbabddadc1ff5737b090e478818a195b40d8a3292861a879139b4a3987c31109699fde9fbf4a716367ddf4eef77da75f96e3193d6ed-primary.xml.zst | Fish Completion for fclones | https://github.com/pkolaczk/fclones - zypper - fclones-zsh-completion - 0.35.0-2.4: normalized package name match | openSUSE Tumbleweed package metadata: fclones-zsh-completion from https://download.opensuse.org/tumbleweed/repo/oss/repodata/50b07339cb64c8ed4091bdbabddadc1ff5737b090e478818a195b40d8a3292861a879139b4a3987c31109699fde9fbf4a716367ddf4eef77da75f96e3193d6ed-primary.xml.zst | ZSH Completion for fclones | https://github.com/pkolaczk/fclones - MacPorts - fclones: normalized package name match | MacPorts ports tree: sysutils/fclones/Portfile from https://api.github.com/repos/macports/macports-ports/git/trees/master?recursive=1 - Scoop - extras/fclones: normalized package name match | Scoop official bucket manifest trees: bucket/fclones.json from https://api.github.com/repos/ScoopInstaller/Extras/git/trees/master?recursive=1 ## Combined YAML source View the package source record on GitHub. [combined/fclones.yml](https://github.com/mxcl/pkgdb/blob/main/combined/fclones.yml) ## Quellen - pkg.so package database - Geiger risk classifier - curated package history - pkgdb category and tag curation - external package-manager database matches - cross-ecosystem install command graph