symilar-3.9 - Man Page

tool for checking similarities in different files


symilar [ options ] [ <files> ]


symilar is a tool for searching blocks of identical lines in different files. It can be used to find copy pasted blocks of code, or stuff that could be refactored. Differences concerning only stuff behind a '#' (Python comments) can be ignored. The size of identical blocks can be optionally modified. symilar ´s functionality is integrated in pylint with the refactoring message 'R0801'.


-h, --help

show help message and exit

-d <min_duplicated_lines>, --duplicates <min_duplicated_lines>

minimum number of identical lines that should trigger a similarity message. Default is 4. So if it finds 3 identical lines, there will be no message, but 4 identical lines will be mentioned.

-i, --ignore-comments

ignore differences concerning only stuff behind a '#' (Python comments). This means that if just a comment was added, the message will still be triggered.

Referenced By

The man page symilar-3(1) is an alias of symilar-3.9(1).

December 15, 2010 symilar