Search for similar files, not necessarily dupes

[tain]

I'd like to find a tool that will find *similar* files. I have several tools that are great for finding dupes (usually based on file size or CRC) but I'm interested in more of a "fuzzy" search.

Something that searched all folders/files and returned filenames that contained the same 2-3 keywords would probably do the trick. This way I can find folders/files/archives that may be stored on different drives. Perhaps the folders in question are different versions of driver packages or even old zip backups of folders.

This way i can clean out some of the cobwebs of so may years of computing and upgrading HDDs

I'm sure a regular expression could do this, but a tool with a nice GUI would be much easier to work with for a large number of results.

Any suggestions?

[eidenk]

This one maybe ?

http://www.wcoyote.org/pubaccess/apps/Hand...e/HFFRSetup.exe

It has a nice GUI and can use regular expressions for searching.

[tain]

That tool does enable the use of regular expressions. But such an expression is beyond my knowledge of RegEx, if it is even possible...I Googled around for a while to find prior art but had no luck. The only things that came close were python/perl/etc scripts, not regular expressions.

And perhaps what I'm asking for isn't really feasible with RegEx. I didn't see any RegExs that were capable of searching multiple drives and recursive directories to match * keywords.

But surely someone has written a program to do such a thing before...

[GrofLuigi]

Search for files (duplicates) equal or similar by percentage: dupkiller

I was looking for something like this a long time. All others (and there are maaany of them) find just duplicates.

The program is still beta and could use some improvement, but it does the job.

GL

[tain]

Excellent! I'd tried DupKiller before, but that was prior to my "fuzzy" search mission. DupKiller seems to be the king of all dupe file checkers...it does everything. And it is freeware!