Similar allows to find which files are similar inside a directory.
Similar uses Xapian to index the files in [path]. It then computes the
relevance between the terms of every pair of files. A directed similarity graph
is built with a vertex for each indexed file. An edge A->B exists iff relevance
of B for the terms in A is higher than [threshold]. similar returns the strong
connected components of the similarity graph.
usage: similar [path] [threshold]
[path] : the directory that contains the files to compare.
[threshold] : cut-off percentage that decides if two files
are similar (at 100 %, files must be really close to
be considered similar)
To build Similar you need to install the following libraries:
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libxapian-dev
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libboost-dev
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libboost-filesystem-dev
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libboost-graph-dev
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libboost-system-dev
On Debian, you can type:
$ sudo apt-get install libxapian-dev libboost-dev libboost-filesystem-dev libboost-graph-dev libboost-system-dev
After installing dependencies, just type
$ ./autogen.sh
$ ./configure
$ make
$ make install