Overview

A PowerShell Script to identify duplicate files from a given directory and if desired move them to a new directory for later deletion.

The script won't delete duplicate files, but instead moves them to a new directory which can then be removed. This is done to prevent any ‘unfortunate’ or ‘unforeseen’ errors :^)

Duplicate identification is done through the MD5 hash of each file.

Usage

Remove-Duplicates.ps1 .

• Identifies duplicates in the current workign directory, does not move them.

Remove-Duplicates.ps1 . remove

• Identifies duplicates in the current working directory and moves them to a new directory for deletion (which will be called 'Delete Me').
• This is the most common use-case for the script

Remove-Duplicates.ps1 \test\ remove \test\"yeet them"

• Identifies duplicates in the \test\ file and moves them to a new directory called 'Yeeted Files'.

Parameters

UserPath

Path to the directory you want to identify duplicates for.

RemoveFiles

Type 'remove' (case sensitive) to move duplicates to a new directory, otherwise they'll just be listed.

RemovalDirectoryName

Choose a name for the new directory duplicate files will be moved to.

Default is 'Remove Me'

To-Do

• General cleanup
• Handle errors
• Validate parameters
• New Param:
• New Param: Support files over 50MB by adding variable size limit