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Posted: **Wed Jul 20, 2016 2:09 pm**

This week I found myself in the position of running batch operations for frequent duplicate-finding needs and suddenly a program like SFK that seemed confusing and odd suddenly seems made out of gold. What a great tool.

Similarly, an open source and command-line duplicate finder: http://www.sentex.net/~mwandel/finddupe/

Posted: **Mon Aug 01, 2016 8:56 am**

SFK - The Swiss File Knife CLI File Tree Processor.

SFK 1.7.7 released 29-JUL-2016. (Changelog: here)

- Windows binary (7/Vista/XP) download: http://stahlworks.com/dev/sfk/sfk.exe

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C:\>sfk ver -own
sfk  sfk     Base/XD windows-any     1.7.7           
Swiss File Knife Jul 29 2016     -

- Alternative binary download from sourceforge

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C:\>sfk177 ver -own
sfk177  sfk     Base/XD windows-any     1.7.7           
Swiss File Knife Jul 29 2016     -

- Windows/Linux/Mac Binaries+Sources download : http://stahlworks.com/sfk.zip

Posted: **Sun Oct 02, 2016 3:58 pm**

v 1.8.1 came out a few days ago (scroll down for the changelog): https://sourceforge.net/projects/swissf ... ife/1.8.1/

Posted: **Wed Jul 05, 2017 6:20 am**

SFK - The Swiss File Knife CLI File Tree Processor.

SFK 1.8.6.3 released 09-JUN-2017 (maintenance release)
This is an interim update to the Major 1.8.6.0 version first released 30-MAY-2017

• Windows binary (7/Vista/XP) download from developer's site:

http://stahlworks.com/dev/sfk/sfk.exe

• Alternate download(s) from sourceforge (includes detailed releases change log)

https://sourceforge.net/projects/swissf ... ife/1.8.6/

Besides the stand-alone sfk186.exe (1.8MB),
the sourceforge repository also includes a comprehensive sfk186.zip (6.2MB) including :

1. Binaries of Swiss File Knife Base, the multi function command line tool
   for Windows (XP to Windows-8), Intel Linux (current and old releases),
   Apple Macintosh (i686 and PPC) and ARM systems like Raspberry Pi.

2. Sourcecode and build scripts of SFK Base,
   allowing compilation under Windows and Linux.

3. Some documentation, example and test files.

Developer's official site: http://stahlworks.com/dev/swiss-file-knife.html