mareksu/near-facsimile

Description

Find similar or identical text files in a directory

Installation Instructions

Installation

• On Fedora, RHEL, or CentOS, install this program from the Copr repository:

  1. Enable the repository:

     # dnf copr enable mareksu/near-facsimile
     
     

  2. Install the package:

     # dnf install near-facsimile
     
     

Usage

• Recursively examine a directory of text files:

  dir-with-text]$ near-facsimile
  
  

  The program continually prints out file information to the terminal.

  Finally, it saves all statistics sorted by file similarity to the comparisons.csv and comparisons.json files in the current directory.

Active Releases

The following unofficial repositories are provided as-is by owner of this project. Contact the owner directly for bugs or issues (IE: not bugzilla).

Release	Architectures	Repo Download
Centos-stream 8	aarch64 (32)*, x86_64 (29)*	Centos-stream 8 (54 downloads)
Centos-stream 9	aarch64 (29)*, x86_64 (32)*	Centos-stream 9 (47 downloads)
Fedora 39	aarch64 (5)*, x86_64 (11)*	Fedora 39 (0 downloads)
Fedora 40	aarch64 (0)*, x86_64 (3)*	Fedora 40 (34 downloads)
Fedora 41	aarch64 (0)*, x86_64 (2)*	Fedora 41 (5 downloads)
Fedora rawhide	aarch64 (34)*, x86_64 (31)*	Fedora rawhide (42 downloads)
Rhel 8	aarch64 (1)*, x86_64 (1)*	Rhel 8 (24 downloads)
Rhel 9	aarch64 (1)*, x86_64 (1)*	Rhel 9 (22 downloads)

* Total number of downloaded packages.