Portable Dupli Find will locate duplicate lines in textfiles, Excel spreadsheets and Word documents. Found duplicates are presented visually and can easily be removed from the source with a minumim of work required.
Filtering can be used to pinpoint specific parts of the lines for better results. Portable Dupli Find can also be used as a general text utility that provides many functions for editing text files.
In the portable version, all settings are contained in the application folder. Nothing is written
to the host system. This means that you can simply copy or move this folder to a new location and the settings will go with it. Because of this, it is important to make sure that the application is allowed to write to its own folder, or else no settings will be saved.
Here are some key features of "Portable Dupli Find":
· Opens text files, Word documents and Excel spreadsheets
· Displays a list duplicate lines / rows /cell that were found
· Duplicates are ordered into differently colored sets
· Visually select duplicates to remove, manually or automatic
· Saves the file without selected duplicates
· Can calculate frequency of recurring lines
· Manage your data lists, such as a newsletter email lists
· Gather statistics from your data files
· Verify lists where each item must be unique
· Help you perform data mining tasks
· Join several text files into one, only keeping unique lines
· Sort lines in textfiles, ascending or descending
· Convert from Unix / Mac OS X format to Dos / Windows textfiles
Limitations:
· Will only display and remove first 5 duplicates
· Nag screen