{"id":33470,"date":"2021-03-12T16:20:41","date_gmt":"2021-03-12T16:20:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/?p=33470"},"modified":"2021-03-22T15:40:18","modified_gmt":"2021-03-22T15:40:18","slug":"czkawka-find-duplicates-empty-broken-linux","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/2021\/03\/czkawka-find-duplicates-empty-broken-linux\/","title":{"rendered":"Czkawka &#8211; Find &#038; Remove Duplicates, Empty, Broken Files in Linux"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/czkawka-icon.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"250\" height=\"250\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-33471\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Czkawka is a simple, fast and easy to use software to remove unnecessary files from your machine.<\/p>\n<p>Czkawka is a free and open-source software written in memory safe Rust. It works on Linux, Mac, and Windows. Due to advanced algorithms and multi-threading, it is amazingly fast!<\/p>\n<p>With it, you can scan your specified folder directories for:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Duplicates files based on file name, size, hash, first 1 MB of hash<\/li>\n<li>Empty folders \/ empty files.<\/li>\n<li>Big files.<\/li>\n<li>Temporary files<\/li>\n<li>Similar images.<\/li>\n<li>Zeroed files<\/li>\n<li>Invalid symbolic links<\/li>\n<li>Broken files.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>And it offers a few select buttons to select and remove your desired files from the output.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/czkawka-window.png\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/czkawka-window-small.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"355\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-33472\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h4>How to Get Czkawka in Ubuntu Linux:<\/h4>\n<p>The software offers official binary packages available to download at the github releases page:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\"><a href='https:br%20\/\/\/github.com\/qarmin\/czkawka\/releases' class='arconix-button-flat arconix-button-large arconix-button-red' target=\"_blank\" >Download Czkawka (Appimage)<\/a><\/p>\n<p>For Linux users, grab the <b>.appimage<\/b> package. Make it executable from file properties dialog, and finally run it to launch the software.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/czkawka-appimage.png\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/czkawka-appimage-small.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"341\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-33475\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>UPDATE: Install Czkawka via Ubuntu PPA:<\/b><\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s now an <a href=\"https:\/\/launchpad.net\/~xtradeb\/+archive\/ubuntu\/apps\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">unofficial PPA<\/a> that contains the software packages for Ubuntu 20.04 and Ubuntu 20.10 so far.<\/p>\n<p>Open terminal and run following commands one by one to add the PPA and install Czkawka via apt:<\/p>\n<pre style=\"border:none;\">sudo add-apt-repository ppa:xtradeb\/apps\r\n\r\nsudo apt install czkawka<\/pre>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Czkawka is a simple, fast and easy to use software to remove unnecessary files from your machine. 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