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<h2 id="overview">Overview</h2>
<p>Duplicate code can be hard to find, especially in a large project.
But PMD’s <strong>Copy/Paste Detector (CPD)</strong> can find it for you!</p>
<p>CPD works with Java, JSP, C/C++, C#, Go, Kotlin, Ruby, Swift and <a href="#supported-languages">many more languages</a>.
It can be used via <a href="#cli-usage">command-line</a>, or via an <a href="#ant-task">Ant task</a>.
It can also be run with Maven by using the <code class="language-plaintext highlighter-rouge">cpd-check</code> goal on the <a href="pmd_userdocs_tools_maven.html">Maven PMD Plugin</a>.</p>
<p>Your own language is missing?
See how to add it <a href="pmd_devdocs_major_adding_new_cpd_language.html">here</a>.</p>
<h3 id="why-should-you-care-about-duplicates">Why should you care about duplicates?</h3>
<p>It’s certainly important to know where to get CPD, and how to call it, but it’s worth stepping back for a moment and
asking yourself why you should care about this, being the occurrence of duplicate code blocks.</p>
<p>Assuming duplicated blocks of code are supposed to do the same thing, any refactoring, even simple, must be duplicated
too – which is unrewarding grunt work, and puts pressure on the developer to find every place in which to perform
the refactoring. Automated tools like CPD can help with that to some extent.</p>
<p>However, failure to keep the code in sync may mean automated tools will no longer recognise these blocks as duplicates.
This means the task of finding duplicates to keep them in sync when doing subsequent refactorings can no longer be
entrusted to an automated tool – adding more burden on the maintainer. Segments of code initially supposed to do the
same thing may grow apart undetected upon further refactoring.</p>
<p>Now, if the code may never change in the future, then this is not a problem.</p>
<p>Otherwise, the most viable solution is to not duplicate. If the duplicates are already there, then they should be
refactored out. We thus advise developers to use CPD to <strong>help remove duplicates</strong>, not to help keep duplicates in sync.</p>
<h3 id="refactoring-duplicates">Refactoring duplicates</h3>
<p>Once you have located some duplicates, several refactoring strategies may apply depending of the scope and extent of
the duplication. Here’s a quick summary:</p>
<ul>
<li>If the duplication is local to a method or single class:
<ul>
<li>Extract a local variable if the duplicated logic is not prohibitively long</li>
<li>Extract the duplicated logic into a private method</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>If the duplication occurs in siblings within a class hierarchy:
<ul>
<li>Extract a method and pull it up in the class hierarchy, along with common fields</li>
<li>Use the <a href="https://sourcemaking.com/design_patterns/template_method">Template Method</a> design pattern</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>If the duplication occurs consistently in unrelated hierarchies:
<ul>
<li>Introduce a common ancestor to those class hierarchies</li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
<p>Novice as much as advanced readers may want to <a href="https://refactoring.guru/smells/duplicate-code">read on on Refactoring Guru</a>
for more in-depth strategies, use cases and explanations.</p>
<h3 id="finding-more-duplicates">Finding more duplicates</h3>
<p>For some languages, additional options are supported. E.g. Java supports <code class="language-plaintext highlighter-rouge">--ignore-identifiers</code>. This has the
effect, that all identifiers are replaced with the same placeholder value before the comparing. This helps to
identify structurally identical code that only differs in naming (different class names, different method names,
different parameter names).</p>
<p>There are other similar options: <code class="language-plaintext highlighter-rouge">--ignore-annotations</code>, <code class="language-plaintext highlighter-rouge">--ignore-literals</code>, <code class="language-plaintext highlighter-rouge">--ignore-literal-sequences</code>,
<code class="language-plaintext highlighter-rouge">--ignore-sequences</code>, <code class="language-plaintext highlighter-rouge">--ignore-usings</code>.</p>
<p>Note that these options are <em>disabled</em> by default (e.g. identifiers are <em>not</em> replaced with the same placeholder
value). By default, CPD finds identical duplicates. Using these options, the found duplicates are not anymore
exactly identical.</p>
<h2 id="cli-usage">CLI Usage</h2>
<h3 id="cli-options-reference">CLI options reference</h3>
<table>
<tr>
<th>Option</th>
<th>Description</th>
<th>Default</th>
<th>Applies to</th>
</tr>
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<!-- Argument summary: -->
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<!-- required: whether the option is required, if specified, whatever the value, it's considered required -->
<!-- languages: languages to which the option applies -->
<!-- default: default value -->
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<tr>
<td><a style="pointer-events: none; cursor: default;" name="-minimum-tokens"><code>--minimum-tokens&nbsp;&lt;count&gt;</code></a></td>
<td><span class="label label-primary">Required</span> The minimum token length which should be reported as a duplicate.</td>
<td><code></code></td>
<td></td>
</tr>
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<!-- Argument summary: -->
<!-- options: comma separated list of aliases for the option.-->
<!-- option_arg: optional name for the argument of the option, eg 'arg', will be formatted eg to '<arg>'-->
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<!-- required: whether the option is required, if specified, whatever the value, it's considered required -->
<!-- languages: languages to which the option applies -->
<!-- default: default value -->
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<td><a style="pointer-events: none; cursor: default;" name="-dir"><code>--dir&nbsp;&lt;path&gt;</code><br /><code>-d&nbsp;&lt;path&gt;</code></a></td>
<td>Path to a source file, or directory containing
source files to analyze. Zip and Jar files are
also supported, if they are specified directly
(archive files found while exploring a directory
are not recursively expanded). This option can
be repeated, and multiple arguments can be
provided to a single occurrence of the option.
One of <code>--dir</code>, <code>--file-list</code> or <code>--uri</code> must be
provided.</td>
<td><code></code></td>
<td></td>
</tr>
<!-- Row of the CLI reference table, describing an option -->
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<!-- Argument summary: -->
<!-- options: comma separated list of aliases for the option.-->
<!-- option_arg: optional name for the argument of the option, eg 'arg', will be formatted eg to '<arg>'-->
<!-- description: description, you can use "some" inline markdown -->
<!-- required: whether the option is required, if specified, whatever the value, it's considered required -->
<!-- languages: languages to which the option applies -->
<!-- default: default value -->
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<tr>
<td><a style="pointer-events: none; cursor: default;" name="-file-list"><code>--file-list&nbsp;&lt;filepath&gt;</code></a></td>
<td>Path to a file containing a list of files to
analyze, one path per line. One of <code>--dir</code>,
<code>--file-list</code> or <code>--uri</code> must be provided.</td>
<td><code></code></td>
<td></td>
</tr>
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<!-- options: comma separated list of aliases for the option.-->
<!-- option_arg: optional name for the argument of the option, eg 'arg', will be formatted eg to '<arg>'-->
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<!-- required: whether the option is required, if specified, whatever the value, it's considered required -->
<!-- languages: languages to which the option applies -->
<!-- default: default value -->
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<tr>
<td><a style="pointer-events: none; cursor: default;" name="-language"><code>--language&nbsp;&lt;lang&gt;</code><br /><code>-l&nbsp;&lt;lang&gt;</code></a></td>
<td>The source code language.
<p>See also <a href="#supported-languages">Supported Languages</a>.
Using <code>--help</code> will display a full list of supported languages.</p></td>
<td><code>java</code></td>
<td></td>
</tr>
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<!-- option_arg: optional name for the argument of the option, eg 'arg', will be formatted eg to '<arg>'-->
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<!-- required: whether the option is required, if specified, whatever the value, it's considered required -->
<!-- languages: languages to which the option applies -->
<!-- default: default value -->
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<tr>
<td><a style="pointer-events: none; cursor: default;" name="-debug"><code>--debug</code><br /><code>--verbose</code><br /><code>-D</code><br /><code>-v</code></a></td>
<td>Debug mode. Prints more log output. See also <a href="#logging">Logging</a>.</td>
<td><code></code></td>
<td></td>
</tr>
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<!-- Argument summary: -->
<!-- options: comma separated list of aliases for the option.-->
<!-- option_arg: optional name for the argument of the option, eg 'arg', will be formatted eg to '<arg>'-->
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<!-- required: whether the option is required, if specified, whatever the value, it's considered required -->
<!-- languages: languages to which the option applies -->
<!-- default: default value -->
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<tr>
<td><a style="pointer-events: none; cursor: default;" name="-encoding"><code>--encoding&nbsp;&lt;charset&gt;</code><br /><code>-e&nbsp;&lt;charset&gt;</code></a></td>
<td>Specifies the character set encoding of the source code files PMD is reading.
The valid values are the standard character sets of <code>java.nio.charset.Charset</code>.</td>
<td><code>UTF-8</code></td>
<td></td>
</tr>
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<!-- options: comma separated list of aliases for the option.-->
<!-- option_arg: optional name for the argument of the option, eg 'arg', will be formatted eg to '<arg>'-->
<!-- description: description, you can use "some" inline markdown -->
<!-- required: whether the option is required, if specified, whatever the value, it's considered required -->
<!-- languages: languages to which the option applies -->
<!-- default: default value -->
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<tr>
<td><a style="pointer-events: none; cursor: default;" name="-skip-duplicate-files"><code>--skip-duplicate-files</code></a></td>
<td>Ignore multiple copies of files of the same name and length in comparison.</td>
<td><code></code></td>
<td></td>
</tr>
<!-- Row of the CLI reference table, describing an option -->
<!-- Rows can be linked to the name of the option (without leading dash) -->
<!-- Argument summary: -->
<!-- options: comma separated list of aliases for the option.-->
<!-- option_arg: optional name for the argument of the option, eg 'arg', will be formatted eg to '<arg>'-->
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<!-- required: whether the option is required, if specified, whatever the value, it's considered required -->
<!-- languages: languages to which the option applies -->
<!-- default: default value -->
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<tr>
<td><a style="pointer-events: none; cursor: default;" name="-exclude"><code>--exclude&nbsp;&lt;path&gt;</code></a></td>
<td>Files to be excluded from the analysis</td>
<td><code></code></td>
<td></td>
</tr>
<!-- Row of the CLI reference table, describing an option -->
<!-- Rows can be linked to the name of the option (without leading dash) -->
<!-- Argument summary: -->
<!-- options: comma separated list of aliases for the option.-->
<!-- option_arg: optional name for the argument of the option, eg 'arg', will be formatted eg to '<arg>'-->
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<!-- required: whether the option is required, if specified, whatever the value, it's considered required -->
<!-- languages: languages to which the option applies -->
<!-- default: default value -->
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<tr>
<td><a style="pointer-events: none; cursor: default;" name="-non-recursive"><code>--non-recursive</code></a></td>
<td>Don't scan subdirectories. By default, subdirectories are considered.</td>
<td><code></code></td>
<td></td>
</tr>
<!-- Row of the CLI reference table, describing an option -->
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<!-- Argument summary: -->
<!-- options: comma separated list of aliases for the option.-->
<!-- option_arg: optional name for the argument of the option, eg 'arg', will be formatted eg to '<arg>'-->
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<!-- required: whether the option is required, if specified, whatever the value, it's considered required -->
<!-- languages: languages to which the option applies -->
<!-- default: default value -->
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<tr>
<td><a style="pointer-events: none; cursor: default;" name="-skip-lexical-errors"><code>--skip-lexical-errors</code></a></td>
<td><span class="label label-primary">Deprecated</span> Skip files which can't be tokenized due to invalid characters instead of aborting CPD.
By default, CPD analysis is stopped on the first error. This is deprecated. Use <code>--fail-on-error</code> instead.</td>
<td><code></code></td>
<td></td>
</tr>
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<!-- languages: languages to which the option applies -->
<!-- default: default value -->
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<tr>
<td><a style="pointer-events: none; cursor: default;" name="-format"><code>--format&nbsp;&lt;format&gt;</code><br /><code>-f&nbsp;&lt;format&gt;</code></a></td>
<td>Output format of the analysis report. The available formats
are described <a href="#available-report-formats">here</a>.</td>
<td><code>text</code></td>
<td></td>
</tr>
<!-- Row of the CLI reference table, describing an option -->
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<!-- Argument summary: -->
<!-- options: comma separated list of aliases for the option.-->
<!-- option_arg: optional name for the argument of the option, eg 'arg', will be formatted eg to '<arg>'-->
<!-- description: description, you can use "some" inline markdown -->
<!-- required: whether the option is required, if specified, whatever the value, it's considered required -->
<!-- languages: languages to which the option applies -->
<!-- default: default value -->
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<tr>
<td><a style="pointer-events: none; cursor: default;" name="-relativize-paths-with"><code>--relativize-paths-with&nbsp;&lt;path&gt;</code><br /><code>-z&nbsp;&lt;path&gt;</code></a></td>
<td>Path relative to which directories are rendered in the report. This option allows
shortening directories in the report; without it, paths are rendered as mentioned in the
source directory (option "--dir").
The option can be repeated, in which case the shortest relative path will be used.
If the root path is mentioned (e.g. "/" or "C:\\"), then the paths will be rendered
as absolute.</td>
<td><code></code></td>
<td></td>
</tr>
<!-- Row of the CLI reference table, describing an option -->
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<!-- Argument summary: -->
<!-- options: comma separated list of aliases for the option.-->
<!-- option_arg: optional name for the argument of the option, eg 'arg', will be formatted eg to '<arg>'-->
<!-- description: description, you can use "some" inline markdown -->
<!-- required: whether the option is required, if specified, whatever the value, it's considered required -->
<!-- languages: languages to which the option applies -->
<!-- default: default value -->
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<tr>
<td><a style="pointer-events: none; cursor: default;" name="-%5Bno-%5Dfail-on-error"><code>--[no-]fail-on-error</code></a></td>
<td>Specifies whether CPD exits with non-zero status if recoverable errors occurred.
By default CPD exits with status 5 if recoverable errors occurred (whether there are duplications or not).
Disable this option with <code>--no-fail-on-error</code> to exit with 0 instead. In any case, a report with the found duplications will be written.</td>
<td><code></code></td>
<td></td>
</tr>
<!-- Row of the CLI reference table, describing an option -->
<!-- Rows can be linked to the name of the option (without leading dash) -->
<!-- Argument summary: -->
<!-- options: comma separated list of aliases for the option.-->
<!-- option_arg: optional name for the argument of the option, eg 'arg', will be formatted eg to '<arg>'-->
<!-- description: description, you can use "some" inline markdown -->
<!-- required: whether the option is required, if specified, whatever the value, it's considered required -->
<!-- languages: languages to which the option applies -->
<!-- default: default value -->
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<tr>
<td><a style="pointer-events: none; cursor: default;" name="-%5Bno-%5Dfail-on-violation"><code>--[no-]fail-on-violation</code></a></td>
<td>Specifies whether CPD exits with non-zero status if violations are found.
By default CPD exits with status 4 if violations are found.
Disable this feature with <code>--no-fail-on-violation</code> to exit with 0 instead and just output the report.</td>
<td><code></code></td>
<td></td>
</tr>
<!-- Row of the CLI reference table, describing an option -->
<!-- Rows can be linked to the name of the option (without leading dash) -->
<!-- Argument summary: -->
<!-- options: comma separated list of aliases for the option.-->
<!-- option_arg: optional name for the argument of the option, eg 'arg', will be formatted eg to '<arg>'-->
<!-- description: description, you can use "some" inline markdown -->
<!-- required: whether the option is required, if specified, whatever the value, it's considered required -->
<!-- languages: languages to which the option applies -->
<!-- default: default value -->
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<tr>
<td><a style="pointer-events: none; cursor: default;" name="-ignore-literals"><code>--ignore-literals</code></a></td>
<td>Ignore literal values such as numbers and strings when comparing text.
By default, literals are not ignored.</td>
<td><code></code></td>
<td>Java, C++</td>
</tr>
<!-- Row of the CLI reference table, describing an option -->
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<!-- Argument summary: -->
<!-- options: comma separated list of aliases for the option.-->
<!-- option_arg: optional name for the argument of the option, eg 'arg', will be formatted eg to '<arg>'-->
<!-- description: description, you can use "some" inline markdown -->
<!-- required: whether the option is required, if specified, whatever the value, it's considered required -->
<!-- languages: languages to which the option applies -->
<!-- default: default value -->
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<tr>
<td><a style="pointer-events: none; cursor: default;" name="-ignore-literal-sequences"><code>--ignore-literal-sequences</code></a></td>
<td>Ignore sequences of literals such as list initializers.
By default, such sequences of literals are not ignored.</td>
<td><code></code></td>
<td>C#, C++, Lua</td>
</tr>
<!-- Row of the CLI reference table, describing an option -->
<!-- Rows can be linked to the name of the option (without leading dash) -->
<!-- Argument summary: -->
<!-- options: comma separated list of aliases for the option.-->
<!-- option_arg: optional name for the argument of the option, eg 'arg', will be formatted eg to '<arg>'-->
<!-- description: description, you can use "some" inline markdown -->
<!-- required: whether the option is required, if specified, whatever the value, it's considered required -->
<!-- languages: languages to which the option applies -->
<!-- default: default value -->
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<tr>
<td><a style="pointer-events: none; cursor: default;" name="-ignore-identifiers"><code>--ignore-identifiers</code></a></td>
<td>Ignore names of classes, methods, variables, constants, etc. when comparing text.
By default, identifier names are not ignored.</td>
<td><code></code></td>
<td>Java, C++</td>
</tr>
<!-- Row of the CLI reference table, describing an option -->
<!-- Rows can be linked to the name of the option (without leading dash) -->
<!-- Argument summary: -->
<!-- options: comma separated list of aliases for the option.-->
<!-- option_arg: optional name for the argument of the option, eg 'arg', will be formatted eg to '<arg>'-->
<!-- description: description, you can use "some" inline markdown -->
<!-- required: whether the option is required, if specified, whatever the value, it's considered required -->
<!-- languages: languages to which the option applies -->
<!-- default: default value -->
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<tr>
<td><a style="pointer-events: none; cursor: default;" name="-ignore-annotations"><code>--ignore-annotations</code></a></td>
<td>Ignore language annotations (Java) or attributes (C#) when comparing text.
By default, annotations are not ignored.</td>
<td><code></code></td>
<td>C#, Java</td>
</tr>
<!-- Row of the CLI reference table, describing an option -->
<!-- Rows can be linked to the name of the option (without leading dash) -->
<!-- Argument summary: -->
<!-- options: comma separated list of aliases for the option.-->
<!-- option_arg: optional name for the argument of the option, eg 'arg', will be formatted eg to '<arg>'-->
<!-- description: description, you can use "some" inline markdown -->
<!-- required: whether the option is required, if specified, whatever the value, it's considered required -->
<!-- languages: languages to which the option applies -->
<!-- default: default value -->
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<tr>
<td><a style="pointer-events: none; cursor: default;" name="-ignore-sequences"><code>--ignore-sequences</code></a></td>
<td>Ignore sequences of identifier and literals.
By default, such sequences are not ignored.</td>
<td><code></code></td>
<td>C++</td>
</tr>
<!-- Row of the CLI reference table, describing an option -->
<!-- Rows can be linked to the name of the option (without leading dash) -->
<!-- Argument summary: -->
<!-- options: comma separated list of aliases for the option.-->
<!-- option_arg: optional name for the argument of the option, eg 'arg', will be formatted eg to '<arg>'-->
<!-- description: description, you can use "some" inline markdown -->
<!-- required: whether the option is required, if specified, whatever the value, it's considered required -->
<!-- languages: languages to which the option applies -->
<!-- default: default value -->
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<tr>
<td><a style="pointer-events: none; cursor: default;" name="-ignore-usings"><code>--ignore-usings</code></a></td>
<td>Ignore <code>using</code> directives in C# when comparing text.
By default, using directives are not ignored.</td>
<td><code></code></td>
<td>C#</td>
</tr>
<!-- Row of the CLI reference table, describing an option -->
<!-- Rows can be linked to the name of the option (without leading dash) -->
<!-- Argument summary: -->
<!-- options: comma separated list of aliases for the option.-->
<!-- option_arg: optional name for the argument of the option, eg 'arg', will be formatted eg to '<arg>'-->
<!-- description: description, you can use "some" inline markdown -->
<!-- required: whether the option is required, if specified, whatever the value, it's considered required -->
<!-- languages: languages to which the option applies -->
<!-- default: default value -->
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<tr>
<td><a style="pointer-events: none; cursor: default;" name="-no-skip-blocks"><code>--no-skip-blocks</code></a></td>
<td>Do not skip code blocks matched by <code>--skip-blocks-pattern</code></td>
<td><code></code></td>
<td>C++</td>
</tr>
<!-- Row of the CLI reference table, describing an option -->
<!-- Rows can be linked to the name of the option (without leading dash) -->
<!-- Argument summary: -->
<!-- options: comma separated list of aliases for the option.-->
<!-- option_arg: optional name for the argument of the option, eg 'arg', will be formatted eg to '<arg>'-->
<!-- description: description, you can use "some" inline markdown -->
<!-- required: whether the option is required, if specified, whatever the value, it's considered required -->
<!-- languages: languages to which the option applies -->
<!-- default: default value -->
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<tr>
<td><a style="pointer-events: none; cursor: default;" name="-skip-blocks-pattern"><code>--skip-blocks-pattern</code></a></td>
<td>Pattern to find the blocks to skip. It is a string property and contains of two parts,
separated by <code>|</code>. The first part is the start pattern, the second part is the ending pattern.</td>
<td><code>#if&nbsp;0|#endif</code></td>
<td>C++</td>
</tr>
<!-- Row of the CLI reference table, describing an option -->
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<!-- options: comma separated list of aliases for the option.-->
<!-- option_arg: optional name for the argument of the option, eg 'arg', will be formatted eg to '<arg>'-->
<!-- description: description, you can use "some" inline markdown -->
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<!-- languages: languages to which the option applies -->
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<td><a style="pointer-events: none; cursor: default;" name="-uri"><code>--uri&nbsp;&lt;uri&gt;</code><br /><code>-u&nbsp;&lt;uri&gt;</code></a></td>
<td>Database URI for sources. One of <code>--dir</code>,
<code>--file-list</code> or <code>--uri</code> must be provided.</td>
<td><code></code></td>
<td>PLSQL</td>
</tr>
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<!-- options: comma separated list of aliases for the option.-->
<!-- option_arg: optional name for the argument of the option, eg 'arg', will be formatted eg to '<arg>'-->
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<!-- languages: languages to which the option applies -->
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<tr>
<td><a style="pointer-events: none; cursor: default;" name="-help"><code>--help</code><br /><code>-h</code></a></td>
<td>Print help text</td>
<td><code></code></td>
<td></td>
</tr>
</table>
<h3 id="examples">Examples</h3>
<p>Minimum required options: Just give it the minimum duplicate size and the source directory:</p>
<div class="text-left">
<ul class="nav nav-tabs" role="tablist">
<li class="nav-item" role="presentation">
<a class="nav-link active" id="linux-tab-basic" data-toggle="tab" href="#linux-basic" role="tab" aria-controls="linux" aria-selected="true">Linux / macOS</a>
</li>
<li class="nav-item" role="presentation">
<a class="nav-link" id="windows-tab-basic" data-toggle="tab" href="#windows-basic" role="tab" aria-controls="windows" aria-selected="false">Windows</a>
</li>
</ul>
<div class="tab-content border">
<div class="tab-pane fade show active" id="linux-basic" role="tabpanel" aria-labelledby="linux-tab">
<figure class="highlight"><pre><code class="language-bash" data-lang="bash"><span class="gp">~ $ </span><span class="s2">pmd</span> cpd --minimum-tokens 100 --dir src/main/java
</code></pre></figure>
</div>
<div class="tab-pane fade" id="windows-basic" role="tabpanel" aria-labelledby="windows-tab">
<figure class="highlight"><pre><code class="language-bash" data-lang="bash"><span class="gp">C:\&gt; </span><span class="s2">pmd.bat</span> cpd --minimum-tokens 100 --dir src\main\java
</code></pre></figure>
</div>
</div>
</div>
<p>You can also specify the language:</p>
<div class="text-left">
<ul class="nav nav-tabs" role="tablist">
<li class="nav-item" role="presentation">
<a class="nav-link active" id="linux-tab-lang" data-toggle="tab" href="#linux-lang" role="tab" aria-controls="linux" aria-selected="true">Linux / macOS</a>
</li>
<li class="nav-item" role="presentation">
<a class="nav-link" id="windows-tab-lang" data-toggle="tab" href="#windows-lang" role="tab" aria-controls="windows" aria-selected="false">Windows</a>
</li>
</ul>
<div class="tab-content border">
<div class="tab-pane fade show active" id="linux-lang" role="tabpanel" aria-labelledby="linux-tab">
<figure class="highlight"><pre><code class="language-bash" data-lang="bash"><span class="gp">~ $ </span><span class="s2">pmd</span> cpd --minimum-tokens 100 --dir src/main/cpp --language cpp
</code></pre></figure>
</div>
<div class="tab-pane fade" id="windows-lang" role="tabpanel" aria-labelledby="windows-tab">
<figure class="highlight"><pre><code class="language-bash" data-lang="bash"><span class="gp">C:\&gt; </span><span class="s2">pmd.bat</span> cpd --minimum-tokens 100 --dir src\main\cpp --language cpp
</code></pre></figure>
</div>
</div>
</div>
<p>You may wish to check sources that are stored in different directories:</p>
<div class="text-left">
<ul class="nav nav-tabs" role="tablist">
<li class="nav-item" role="presentation">
<a class="nav-link active" id="linux-tab-multiple" data-toggle="tab" href="#linux-multiple" role="tab" aria-controls="linux" aria-selected="true">Linux / macOS</a>
</li>
<li class="nav-item" role="presentation">
<a class="nav-link" id="windows-tab-multiple" data-toggle="tab" href="#windows-multiple" role="tab" aria-controls="windows" aria-selected="false">Windows</a>
</li>
</ul>
<div class="tab-content border">
<div class="tab-pane fade show active" id="linux-multiple" role="tabpanel" aria-labelledby="linux-tab">
<figure class="highlight"><pre><code class="language-bash" data-lang="bash"><span class="gp">~ $ </span><span class="s2">pmd</span> cpd --minimum-tokens 100 --dir src/main/java --dir src/test/java
</code></pre></figure>
</div>
<div class="tab-pane fade" id="windows-multiple" role="tabpanel" aria-labelledby="windows-tab">
<figure class="highlight"><pre><code class="language-bash" data-lang="bash"><span class="gp">C:\&gt; </span><span class="s2">pmd.bat</span> cpd --minimum-tokens 100 --dir src\main\java --dir src\test\java
</code></pre></figure>
</div>
</div>
</div>
<p><em>There is no limit to the number of <code class="language-plaintext highlighter-rouge">--dir</code>, you may add.</em></p>
<p>You may wish to ignore identifiers so that more duplications are found, that only differ in naming:</p>
<div class="text-left">
<ul class="nav nav-tabs" role="tablist">
<li class="nav-item" role="presentation">
<a class="nav-link active" id="linux-tab-ignore_identifiers" data-toggle="tab" href="#linux-ignore_identifiers" role="tab" aria-controls="linux" aria-selected="true">Linux / macOS</a>
</li>
<li class="nav-item" role="presentation">
<a class="nav-link" id="windows-tab-ignore_identifiers" data-toggle="tab" href="#windows-ignore_identifiers" role="tab" aria-controls="windows" aria-selected="false">Windows</a>
</li>
</ul>
<div class="tab-content border">
<div class="tab-pane fade show active" id="linux-ignore_identifiers" role="tabpanel" aria-labelledby="linux-tab">
<figure class="highlight"><pre><code class="language-bash" data-lang="bash"><span class="gp">~ $ </span><span class="s2">pmd</span> cpd --minimum-tokens 100 --dir src/main/java --ignore-identifiers
</code></pre></figure>
</div>
<div class="tab-pane fade" id="windows-ignore_identifiers" role="tabpanel" aria-labelledby="windows-tab">
<figure class="highlight"><pre><code class="language-bash" data-lang="bash"><span class="gp">C:\&gt; </span><span class="s2">pmd.bat</span> cpd --minimum-tokens 100 --dir src\main\java --ignore-identifiers
</code></pre></figure>
</div>
</div>
</div>
<p>And if you’re checking a C source tree with duplicate files in different architecture directories
you can skip those using <code class="language-plaintext highlighter-rouge">--skip-duplicate-files</code>:</p>
<div class="text-left">
<ul class="nav nav-tabs" role="tablist">
<li class="nav-item" role="presentation">
<a class="nav-link active" id="linux-tab-duplicates" data-toggle="tab" href="#linux-duplicates" role="tab" aria-controls="linux" aria-selected="true">Linux / macOS</a>
</li>
<li class="nav-item" role="presentation">
<a class="nav-link" id="windows-tab-duplicates" data-toggle="tab" href="#windows-duplicates" role="tab" aria-controls="windows" aria-selected="false">Windows</a>
</li>
</ul>
<div class="tab-content border">
<div class="tab-pane fade show active" id="linux-duplicates" role="tabpanel" aria-labelledby="linux-tab">
<figure class="highlight"><pre><code class="language-bash" data-lang="bash"><span class="gp">~ $ </span><span class="s2">pmd</span> cpd --minimum-tokens 100 --dir src/main/cpp --language cpp --skip-duplicate-files
</code></pre></figure>
</div>
<div class="tab-pane fade" id="windows-duplicates" role="tabpanel" aria-labelledby="windows-tab">
<figure class="highlight"><pre><code class="language-bash" data-lang="bash"><span class="gp">C:\&gt; </span><span class="s2">pmd.bat</span> cpd --minimum-tokens 100 --dir src\main\cpp --language cpp --skip-duplicate-files
</code></pre></figure>
</div>
</div>
</div>
<p>You can also specify the encoding to use when parsing files:</p>
<div class="text-left">
<ul class="nav nav-tabs" role="tablist">
<li class="nav-item" role="presentation">
<a class="nav-link active" id="linux-tab-encoding" data-toggle="tab" href="#linux-encoding" role="tab" aria-controls="linux" aria-selected="true">Linux / macOS</a>
</li>
<li class="nav-item" role="presentation">
<a class="nav-link" id="windows-tab-encoding" data-toggle="tab" href="#windows-encoding" role="tab" aria-controls="windows" aria-selected="false">Windows</a>
</li>
</ul>
<div class="tab-content border">
<div class="tab-pane fade show active" id="linux-encoding" role="tabpanel" aria-labelledby="linux-tab">
<figure class="highlight"><pre><code class="language-bash" data-lang="bash"><span class="gp">~ $ </span><span class="s2">pmd</span> cpd --minimum-tokens 100 --dir src/main/java --encoding utf-16le
</code></pre></figure>
</div>
<div class="tab-pane fade" id="windows-encoding" role="tabpanel" aria-labelledby="windows-tab">
<figure class="highlight"><pre><code class="language-bash" data-lang="bash"><span class="gp">C:\&gt; </span><span class="s2">pmd.bat</span> cpd --minimum-tokens 100 --dir src\main\java --encoding utf-16le
</code></pre></figure>
</div>
</div>
</div>
<p>You can also specify a report format - here we’re using the XML report:</p>
<div class="text-left">
<ul class="nav nav-tabs" role="tablist">
<li class="nav-item" role="presentation">
<a class="nav-link active" id="linux-tab-report" data-toggle="tab" href="#linux-report" role="tab" aria-controls="linux" aria-selected="true">Linux / macOS</a>
</li>
<li class="nav-item" role="presentation">
<a class="nav-link" id="windows-tab-report" data-toggle="tab" href="#windows-report" role="tab" aria-controls="windows" aria-selected="false">Windows</a>
</li>
</ul>
<div class="tab-content border">
<div class="tab-pane fade show active" id="linux-report" role="tabpanel" aria-labelledby="linux-tab">
<figure class="highlight"><pre><code class="language-bash" data-lang="bash"><span class="gp">~ $ </span><span class="s2">pmd</span> cpd --minimum-tokens 100 --dir src/main/java --format xml
</code></pre></figure>
</div>
<div class="tab-pane fade" id="windows-report" role="tabpanel" aria-labelledby="windows-tab">
<figure class="highlight"><pre><code class="language-bash" data-lang="bash"><span class="gp">C:\&gt; </span><span class="s2">pmd.bat</span> cpd --minimum-tokens 100 --dir src\main\java --format xml
</code></pre></figure>
</div>
</div>
</div>
<p>The default format is a text report, but there are <a href="#available-report-formats">other supported formats</a></p>
<p>Note that CPD’s memory usage increases linearly with the size of the analyzed source code; you may need to give Java more memory to run it, like this:</p>
<div class="text-left">
<ul class="nav nav-tabs" role="tablist">
<li class="nav-item" role="presentation">
<a class="nav-link active" id="linux-tab-memchange" data-toggle="tab" href="#linux-memchange" role="tab" aria-controls="linux" aria-selected="true">Linux / macOS</a>
</li>
<li class="nav-item" role="presentation">
<a class="nav-link" id="windows-tab-memchange" data-toggle="tab" href="#windows-memchange" role="tab" aria-controls="windows" aria-selected="false">Windows</a>
</li>
</ul>
<div class="tab-content border">
<div class="tab-pane fade show active" id="linux-memchange" role="tabpanel" aria-labelledby="linux-tab">
<figure class="highlight"><pre><code class="language-bash" data-lang="bash"><span class="gp">~ $ </span><span class="s2">export</span> PMD_JAVA_OPTS=-Xmx512m
<span class="gp">~ $ </span><span class="s2">pmd</span> cpd --minimum-tokens 100 --dir src/main/java
</code></pre></figure>
</div>
<div class="tab-pane fade" id="windows-memchange" role="tabpanel" aria-labelledby="windows-tab">
<figure class="highlight"><pre><code class="language-bash" data-lang="bash"><span class="gp">C:\&gt; </span><span class="s2">set</span> PMD_JAVA_OPTS=-Xmx512m
<span class="gp">C:\&gt; </span><span class="s2">pmd.bat</span> cpd --minimum-tokens 100 --dir src\main\java
</code></pre></figure>
</div>
</div>
</div>
<p>If you specify a source directory but don’t want to scan the sub-directories, you can use the non-recursive option:</p>
<div class="text-left">
<ul class="nav nav-tabs" role="tablist">
<li class="nav-item" role="presentation">
<a class="nav-link active" id="linux-tab-nonrecursive" data-toggle="tab" href="#linux-nonrecursive" role="tab" aria-controls="linux" aria-selected="true">Linux / macOS</a>
</li>
<li class="nav-item" role="presentation">
<a class="nav-link" id="windows-tab-nonrecursive" data-toggle="tab" href="#windows-nonrecursive" role="tab" aria-controls="windows" aria-selected="false">Windows</a>
</li>
</ul>
<div class="tab-content border">
<div class="tab-pane fade show active" id="linux-nonrecursive" role="tabpanel" aria-labelledby="linux-tab">
<figure class="highlight"><pre><code class="language-bash" data-lang="bash"><span class="gp">~ $ </span><span class="s2">pmd</span> cpd --minimum-tokens 100 --dir src/main/java --non-recursive
</code></pre></figure>
</div>
<div class="tab-pane fade" id="windows-nonrecursive" role="tabpanel" aria-labelledby="windows-tab">
<figure class="highlight"><pre><code class="language-bash" data-lang="bash"><span class="gp">C:\&gt; </span><span class="s2">pmd.bat</span> cpd --minimum-tokens 100 --dir src\main\java --non-recursive
</code></pre></figure>
</div>
</div>
</div>
<h3 id="exit-status">Exit status</h3>
<p>Please note that if CPD detects duplicated source code, it will exit with status 4 (since 5.0) or 5 (since 7.3.0).
This behavior has been introduced to ease CPD integration into scripts or hooks, such as SVN hooks.</p>
<table>
<tr><td>0</td><td>Everything is fine, no code duplications found and no recoverable errors occurred.</td></tr>
<tr><td>1</td><td>CPD exited with an exception.</td></tr>
<tr><td>2</td><td>Usage error. Command-line parameters are invalid or missing.</td></tr>
<tr><td>4</td><td>At least one code duplication has been detected unless <code>--no-fail-on-violation</code> is set.<p>Since PMD 5.0.</p></td></tr>
<tr><td>5</td><td>At least one recoverable error has occurred. There might be additionally zero or more duplications detected.
To ignore recoverable errors, use <code>--no-fail-on-error</code>.<p>Since PMD 7.3.0.</p></td></tr>
</table>
<div class="alert alert-info" role="alert"><i class="fas fa-info-circle"></i> <b>Note:</b> If PMD exits with 5, then PMD had trouble lexing one or more files.
That means, that no duplications for the entire file are reported. This can be considered as false-negative.
In any case, the root cause should be investigated. If it’s a problem in PMD itself, please create a bug report.</div>
<h2 id="logging">Logging</h2>
<p>PMD internally uses <a href="https://www.slf4j.org/">slf4j</a> and ships with slf4j-simple as the logging implementation.
Logging messages are printed to System.err.</p>
<p>The configuration for slf4j-simple is in the file <code class="language-plaintext highlighter-rouge">conf/simplelogger.properties</code>. There you can enable
logging of specific classes if needed. The <code class="language-plaintext highlighter-rouge">--debug</code> command line option configures the default log level
to be “debug”.</p>
<h2 id="supported-languages">Supported Languages</h2>
<ul>
<li>C#</li>
<li>C/C++</li>
<li><a href="pmd_languages_coco.html">Coco</a></li>
<li>Dart</li>
<li>EcmaScript (JavaScript)</li>
<li>Fortran</li>
<li><a href="pmd_languages_gherkin.html">Gherkin</a> (Cucumber)</li>
<li>Go</li>
<li>Groovy</li>
<li><a href="pmd_languages_html.html">Html</a></li>
<li><a href="pmd_languages_java.html">Java</a></li>
<li><a href="pmd_languages_jsp.html">Jsp</a></li>
<li><a href="pmd_languages_julia.html">Julia</a></li>
<li><a href="pmd_languages_kotlin.html">Kotlin</a></li>
<li>Lua</li>
<li>Matlab</li>
<li>Modelica</li>
<li>Objective-C</li>
<li>Perl</li>
<li>PHP</li>
<li><a href="pmd_languages_plsql.html">PL/SQL</a></li>
<li>Python</li>
<li>Ruby</li>
<li><a href="pmd_languages_apex.html">Salesforce.com Apex</a></li>
<li>Scala</li>
<li>Swift</li>
<li>T-SQL</li>
<li><a href="pmd_languages_js_ts.html">TypeScript</a></li>
<li><a href="pmd_languages_visualforce.html">Visualforce</a></li>
<li>vm (Apache Velocity)</li>
<li><a href="pmd_languages_xml.html">XML</a>
<ul>
<li>POM (Apache Maven)</li>
<li>XSL</li>
<li>WSDL</li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
<h2 id="available-report-formats">Available report formats</h2>
<ul>
<li>text : Default format</li>
<li>xml (and xslt)</li>
<li>csv</li>
<li>csv_with_linecount_per_file</li>
<li>vs</li>
</ul>
<p>For details, see <a href="pmd_userdocs_cpd_report_formats.html">CPD Report Formats</a>.</p>
<h2 id="ant-task">Ant task</h2>
<p>Andy Glover wrote an Ant task for CPD; here’s how to use it:</p>
<div class="language-xml highlighter-rouge"><div class="highlight"><pre class="highlight"><code><span class="nt">&lt;path</span> <span class="na">id=</span><span class="s">"pmd.classpath"</span><span class="nt">&gt;</span>
<span class="nt">&lt;fileset</span> <span class="na">dir=</span><span class="s">"/home/joe/pmd-bin-7.8.0-SNAPSHOT/lib"</span><span class="nt">&gt;</span>
<span class="nt">&lt;include</span> <span class="na">name=</span><span class="s">"*.jar"</span><span class="nt">/&gt;</span>
<span class="nt">&lt;/fileset&gt;</span>
<span class="nt">&lt;/path&gt;</span>
<span class="nt">&lt;taskdef</span> <span class="na">name=</span><span class="s">"cpd"</span> <span class="na">classname=</span><span class="s">"net.sourceforge.pmd.ant.CPDTask"</span> <span class="na">classpathref=</span><span class="s">"pmd.classpath"</span> <span class="nt">/&gt;</span>
<span class="nt">&lt;target</span> <span class="na">name=</span><span class="s">"cpd"</span><span class="nt">&gt;</span>
<span class="nt">&lt;cpd</span> <span class="na">minimumTokenCount=</span><span class="s">"100"</span> <span class="na">outputFile=</span><span class="s">"/home/tom/cpd.txt"</span><span class="nt">&gt;</span>
<span class="nt">&lt;fileset</span> <span class="na">dir=</span><span class="s">"/home/tom/tmp/ant"</span><span class="nt">&gt;</span>
<span class="nt">&lt;include</span> <span class="na">name=</span><span class="s">"**/*.java"</span><span class="nt">/&gt;</span>
<span class="nt">&lt;/fileset&gt;</span>
<span class="nt">&lt;/cpd&gt;</span>
<span class="nt">&lt;/target&gt;</span>
</code></pre></div></div>
<!-- TODO avoid duplicating the descriptions! -->
<h3 id="attribute-reference">Attribute reference</h3>
<table>
<tr>
<th>Attribute</th>
<th>Description</th>
<th>Default</th>
<th>Applies to</th>
</tr>
<!-- Row of the CLI reference table, describing an option -->
<!-- Rows can be linked to the name of the option (without leading dash) -->
<!-- Argument summary: -->
<!-- options: comma separated list of aliases for the option.-->
<!-- option_arg: optional name for the argument of the option, eg 'arg', will be formatted eg to '<arg>'-->
<!-- description: description, you can use "some" inline markdown -->
<!-- required: whether the option is required, if specified, whatever the value, it's considered required -->
<!-- languages: languages to which the option applies -->
<!-- default: default value -->
<!-- fragment id in the page -->
<tr>
<td><a style="pointer-events: none; cursor: default;" name="minimumtokencount"><code>minimumtokencount</code></a></td>
<td><span class="label label-primary">Required</span> A positive integer indicating the minimum duplicate size.</td>
<td><code></code></td>
<td></td>
</tr>
<!-- Row of the CLI reference table, describing an option -->
<!-- Rows can be linked to the name of the option (without leading dash) -->
<!-- Argument summary: -->
<!-- options: comma separated list of aliases for the option.-->
<!-- option_arg: optional name for the argument of the option, eg 'arg', will be formatted eg to '<arg>'-->
<!-- description: description, you can use "some" inline markdown -->
<!-- required: whether the option is required, if specified, whatever the value, it's considered required -->
<!-- languages: languages to which the option applies -->
<!-- default: default value -->
<!-- fragment id in the page -->
<tr>
<td><a style="pointer-events: none; cursor: default;" name="encoding"><code>encoding</code></a></td>
<td>The character set encoding (e.g., UTF-8) to use when reading the source code files, but also when
producing the report. A piece of warning, even if you set properly the encoding value,
let's say to UTF-8, but you are running CPD encoded with CP1252, you may end up with not UTF-8 file.
Indeed, CPD copy piece of source code in its report directly, therefore, the source files
keep their encoding.<br />
If not specified, CPD uses the system default encoding.</td>
<td><code></code></td>
<td></td>
</tr>
<!-- Row of the CLI reference table, describing an option -->
<!-- Rows can be linked to the name of the option (without leading dash) -->
<!-- Argument summary: -->
<!-- options: comma separated list of aliases for the option.-->
<!-- option_arg: optional name for the argument of the option, eg 'arg', will be formatted eg to '<arg>'-->
<!-- description: description, you can use "some" inline markdown -->
<!-- required: whether the option is required, if specified, whatever the value, it's considered required -->
<!-- languages: languages to which the option applies -->
<!-- default: default value -->
<!-- fragment id in the page -->
<tr>
<td><a style="pointer-events: none; cursor: default;" name="failOnError"><code>failOnError</code></a></td>
<td>Whether to fail the build if any errors occurred while processing the files. Since PMD 7.3.0.</td>
<td><code>true</code></td>
<td></td>
</tr>
<!-- Row of the CLI reference table, describing an option -->
<!-- Rows can be linked to the name of the option (without leading dash) -->
<!-- Argument summary: -->
<!-- options: comma separated list of aliases for the option.-->
<!-- option_arg: optional name for the argument of the option, eg 'arg', will be formatted eg to '<arg>'-->
<!-- description: description, you can use "some" inline markdown -->
<!-- required: whether the option is required, if specified, whatever the value, it's considered required -->
<!-- languages: languages to which the option applies -->
<!-- default: default value -->
<!-- fragment id in the page -->
<tr>
<td><a style="pointer-events: none; cursor: default;" name="format"><code>format</code></a></td>
<td>The format of the report (e.g. <code>csv</code>, <code>text</code>, <code>xml</code>).</td>
<td><code>text</code></td>
<td></td>
</tr>
<!-- Row of the CLI reference table, describing an option -->
<!-- Rows can be linked to the name of the option (without leading dash) -->
<!-- Argument summary: -->
<!-- options: comma separated list of aliases for the option.-->
<!-- option_arg: optional name for the argument of the option, eg 'arg', will be formatted eg to '<arg>'-->
<!-- description: description, you can use "some" inline markdown -->
<!-- required: whether the option is required, if specified, whatever the value, it's considered required -->
<!-- languages: languages to which the option applies -->
<!-- default: default value -->
<!-- fragment id in the page -->
<tr>
<td><a style="pointer-events: none; cursor: default;" name="ignoreLiterals"><code>ignoreLiterals</code></a></td>
<td>if <code>true</code>, CPD ignores literal value differences when evaluating a duplicate
block. This means that <code>foo=42;</code> and <code>foo=43;</code> will be seen as equivalent. You may want
to run PMD with this option off to start with and then switch it on to see what it turns up.</td>
<td><code>false</code></td>
<td>Java</td>
</tr>
<!-- Row of the CLI reference table, describing an option -->
<!-- Rows can be linked to the name of the option (without leading dash) -->
<!-- Argument summary: -->
<!-- options: comma separated list of aliases for the option.-->
<!-- option_arg: optional name for the argument of the option, eg 'arg', will be formatted eg to '<arg>'-->
<!-- description: description, you can use "some" inline markdown -->
<!-- required: whether the option is required, if specified, whatever the value, it's considered required -->
<!-- languages: languages to which the option applies -->
<!-- default: default value -->
<!-- fragment id in the page -->
<tr>
<td><a style="pointer-events: none; cursor: default;" name="ignoreIdentifiers"><code>ignoreIdentifiers</code></a></td>
<td>Similar to <code>ignoreLiterals</code> but for identifiers; i.e., variable names, methods names, and so forth.</td>
<td><code>false</code></td>
<td>Java</td>
</tr>
<!-- Row of the CLI reference table, describing an option -->
<!-- Rows can be linked to the name of the option (without leading dash) -->
<!-- Argument summary: -->
<!-- options: comma separated list of aliases for the option.-->
<!-- option_arg: optional name for the argument of the option, eg 'arg', will be formatted eg to '<arg>'-->
<!-- description: description, you can use "some" inline markdown -->
<!-- required: whether the option is required, if specified, whatever the value, it's considered required -->
<!-- languages: languages to which the option applies -->
<!-- default: default value -->
<!-- fragment id in the page -->
<tr>
<td><a style="pointer-events: none; cursor: default;" name="ignoreAnnotations"><code>ignoreAnnotations</code></a></td>
<td>Ignore annotations. More and more modern frameworks use annotations on classes and methods,
which can be very redundant and trigger CPD matches. With J2EE (CDI, Transaction Handling, etc)
and Spring (everything) annotations become very redundant. Often classes or methods have the
same 5-6 lines of annotations. This causes false positives.</td>
<td><code>false</code></td>
<td>Java</td>
</tr>
<!-- Row of the CLI reference table, describing an option -->
<!-- Rows can be linked to the name of the option (without leading dash) -->
<!-- Argument summary: -->
<!-- options: comma separated list of aliases for the option.-->
<!-- option_arg: optional name for the argument of the option, eg 'arg', will be formatted eg to '<arg>'-->
<!-- description: description, you can use "some" inline markdown -->
<!-- required: whether the option is required, if specified, whatever the value, it's considered required -->
<!-- languages: languages to which the option applies -->
<!-- default: default value -->
<!-- fragment id in the page -->
<tr>
<td><a style="pointer-events: none; cursor: default;" name="ignoreUsings"><code>ignoreUsings</code></a></td>
<td>Ignore using directives in C#.</td>
<td><code>false</code></td>
<td>C#</td>
</tr>
<!-- Row of the CLI reference table, describing an option -->
<!-- Rows can be linked to the name of the option (without leading dash) -->
<!-- Argument summary: -->
<!-- options: comma separated list of aliases for the option.-->
<!-- option_arg: optional name for the argument of the option, eg 'arg', will be formatted eg to '<arg>'-->
<!-- description: description, you can use "some" inline markdown -->
<!-- required: whether the option is required, if specified, whatever the value, it's considered required -->
<!-- languages: languages to which the option applies -->
<!-- default: default value -->
<!-- fragment id in the page -->
<tr>
<td><a style="pointer-events: none; cursor: default;" name="skipDuplicateFiles"><code>skipDuplicateFiles</code></a></td>
<td>Ignore multiple copies of files of the same name and length in comparison.</td>
<td><code>false</code></td>
<td></td>
</tr>
<!-- Row of the CLI reference table, describing an option -->
<!-- Rows can be linked to the name of the option (without leading dash) -->
<!-- Argument summary: -->
<!-- options: comma separated list of aliases for the option.-->
<!-- option_arg: optional name for the argument of the option, eg 'arg', will be formatted eg to '<arg>'-->
<!-- description: description, you can use "some" inline markdown -->
<!-- required: whether the option is required, if specified, whatever the value, it's considered required -->
<!-- languages: languages to which the option applies -->
<!-- default: default value -->
<!-- fragment id in the page -->
<tr>
<td><a style="pointer-events: none; cursor: default;" name="skipLexicalErrors"><code>skipLexicalErrors</code></a></td>
<td><span class="label label-primary">Deprecated</span> Skip files which can't be tokenized
due to invalid characters instead of aborting CPD. This parameter is deprecated and
ignored since PMD 7.3.0. It is now by default true. Use <code>failOnError</code> instead to fail the build.</td>
<td><code>true</code></td>
<td></td>
</tr>
<!-- Row of the CLI reference table, describing an option -->
<!-- Rows can be linked to the name of the option (without leading dash) -->
<!-- Argument summary: -->
<!-- options: comma separated list of aliases for the option.-->
<!-- option_arg: optional name for the argument of the option, eg 'arg', will be formatted eg to '<arg>'-->
<!-- description: description, you can use "some" inline markdown -->
<!-- required: whether the option is required, if specified, whatever the value, it's considered required -->
<!-- languages: languages to which the option applies -->
<!-- default: default value -->
<!-- fragment id in the page -->
<tr>
<td><a style="pointer-events: none; cursor: default;" name="skipBlocks"><code>skipBlocks</code></a></td>
<td>Enables or disabled skipping of blocks like a pre-processor. See also option skipBlocksPattern.</td>
<td><code>true</code></td>
<td>C++</td>
</tr>
<!-- Row of the CLI reference table, describing an option -->
<!-- Rows can be linked to the name of the option (without leading dash) -->
<!-- Argument summary: -->
<!-- options: comma separated list of aliases for the option.-->
<!-- option_arg: optional name for the argument of the option, eg 'arg', will be formatted eg to '<arg>'-->
<!-- description: description, you can use "some" inline markdown -->
<!-- required: whether the option is required, if specified, whatever the value, it's considered required -->
<!-- languages: languages to which the option applies -->
<!-- default: default value -->
<!-- fragment id in the page -->
<tr>
<td><a style="pointer-events: none; cursor: default;" name="skipBlocksPattern"><code>skipBlocksPattern</code></a></td>
<td>Configures the pattern, to find the blocks to skip. It is a string property and contains of two parts,
separated by <code>|</code>. The first part is the start pattern, the second part is the ending pattern.</td>
<td><code>#if&nbsp;0|#endif</code></td>
<td>C++</td>
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<td><a style="pointer-events: none; cursor: default;" name="language"><code>language</code></a></td>
<td>Flag to select the appropriate language (e.g. <code>c</code>, <code>cpp</code>, <code>cs</code>, <code>java</code>, <code>jsp</code>, <code>php</code>, <code>ruby</code>, <code>fortran</code>
<code>ecmascript</code>, and <code>plsql</code>).</td>
<td><code>java</code></td>
<td></td>
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<td><a style="pointer-events: none; cursor: default;" name="outputfile"><code>outputfile</code></a></td>
<td>The destination file for the report. If not specified the console will be used instead.</td>
<td><code></code></td>
<td></td>
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<p>Also, you can get verbose output from this task by running ant with the <code class="language-plaintext highlighter-rouge">-v</code> flag; i.e.:</p>
<div class="language-plaintext highlighter-rouge"><div class="highlight"><pre class="highlight"><code>ant -v -f mybuildfile.xml cpd
</code></pre></div></div>
<p>Also, you can get an HTML report from CPD by using the XSLT script in pmd/etc/xslt/cpdhtml.xslt. Just run
the CPD task as usual and right after it invoke the Ant XSLT script like this:</p>
<div class="language-xml highlighter-rouge"><div class="highlight"><pre class="highlight"><code><span class="nt">&lt;xslt</span> <span class="na">in=</span><span class="s">"cpd.xml"</span> <span class="na">style=</span><span class="s">"etc/xslt/cpdhtml.xslt"</span> <span class="na">out=</span><span class="s">"cpd.html"</span> <span class="nt">/&gt;</span>
</code></pre></div></div>
<p>See <a href="pmd_userdocs_cpd_report_formats.html#xslt">section “xslt” in CPD Report Formats</a> for more examples.</p>
<h2 id="gui">GUI</h2>
<p>CPD also comes with a simple GUI. You can start it through the unified CLI interface provided in the <code class="language-plaintext highlighter-rouge">bin</code> folder:</p>
<div class="text-left">
<ul class="nav nav-tabs" role="tablist">
<li class="nav-item" role="presentation">
<a class="nav-link active" id="linux-tab-gui" data-toggle="tab" href="#linux-gui" role="tab" aria-controls="linux" aria-selected="true">Linux / macOS</a>
</li>
<li class="nav-item" role="presentation">
<a class="nav-link" id="windows-tab-gui" data-toggle="tab" href="#windows-gui" role="tab" aria-controls="windows" aria-selected="false">Windows</a>
</li>
</ul>
<div class="tab-content border">
<div class="tab-pane fade show active" id="linux-gui" role="tabpanel" aria-labelledby="linux-tab">
<figure class="highlight"><pre><code class="language-bash" data-lang="bash"><span class="gp">~ $ </span><span class="s2">pmd</span> cpd-gui
</code></pre></figure>
</div>
<div class="tab-pane fade" id="windows-gui" role="tabpanel" aria-labelledby="windows-tab">
<figure class="highlight"><pre><code class="language-bash" data-lang="bash"><span class="gp">C:\&gt; </span><span class="s2">pmd.bat</span> cpd-gui
</code></pre></figure>
</div>
</div>
</div>
<p>Here’s a screenshot of CPD after running on the JDK 8 java.lang package:</p>
<figure><img class="docimage" src="images/userdocs/screenshot_cpd.png" alt="CPD Screenshot after running on the JDK 8 java.lang package" /></figure>
<h2 id="suppression">Suppression</h2>
<p>Arbitrary blocks of code can be ignored through comments on <strong>Java</strong>, <strong>C/C++</strong>, <strong>Dart</strong>, <strong>Go</strong>, <strong>Groovy</strong>, <strong>Javascript</strong>,
<strong>Kotlin</strong>, <strong>Lua</strong>, <strong>Matlab</strong>, <strong>Objective-C</strong>, <strong>PL/SQL</strong>, <strong>Python</strong>, <strong>Scala</strong>, <strong>Swift</strong> and <strong>C#</strong> by including the keywords <code class="language-plaintext highlighter-rouge">CPD-OFF</code> and <code class="language-plaintext highlighter-rouge">CPD-ON</code>.</p>
<div class="language-java highlighter-rouge"><div class="highlight"><pre class="highlight"><code><span class="kd">public</span> <span class="nc">Object</span> <span class="nf">someParameterizedFactoryMethod</span><span class="o">(</span><span class="kt">int</span> <span class="n">x</span><span class="o">)</span> <span class="kd">throws</span> <span class="nc">Exception</span> <span class="o">{</span>
<span class="c1">// some unignored code</span>
<span class="c1">// tell cpd to start ignoring code - CPD-OFF</span>
<span class="c1">// mission critical code, manually loop unroll</span>
<span class="n">goDoSomethingAwesome</span><span class="o">(</span><span class="n">x</span> <span class="o">+</span> <span class="n">x</span> <span class="o">/</span> <span class="mi">2</span><span class="o">);</span>
<span class="n">goDoSomethingAwesome</span><span class="o">(</span><span class="n">x</span> <span class="o">+</span> <span class="n">x</span> <span class="o">/</span> <span class="mi">2</span><span class="o">);</span>
<span class="n">goDoSomethingAwesome</span><span class="o">(</span><span class="n">x</span> <span class="o">+</span> <span class="n">x</span> <span class="o">/</span> <span class="mi">2</span><span class="o">);</span>
<span class="n">goDoSomethingAwesome</span><span class="o">(</span><span class="n">x</span> <span class="o">+</span> <span class="n">x</span> <span class="o">/</span> <span class="mi">2</span><span class="o">);</span>
<span class="n">goDoSomethingAwesome</span><span class="o">(</span><span class="n">x</span> <span class="o">+</span> <span class="n">x</span> <span class="o">/</span> <span class="mi">2</span><span class="o">);</span>
<span class="n">goDoSomethingAwesome</span><span class="o">(</span><span class="n">x</span> <span class="o">+</span> <span class="n">x</span> <span class="o">/</span> <span class="mi">2</span><span class="o">);</span>
<span class="c1">// resume CPD analysis - CPD-ON</span>
<span class="c1">// further code will *not* be ignored</span>
<span class="o">}</span>
</code></pre></div></div>
<p>Additionally, <strong>Java</strong> allows to toggle suppression by adding the annotations
<strong><code class="language-plaintext highlighter-rouge">@SuppressWarnings("CPD-START")</code></strong> and <strong><code class="language-plaintext highlighter-rouge">@SuppressWarnings("CPD-END")</code></strong>
all code within will be ignored by CPD.</p>
<p>This approach however, is limited to the locations were <code class="language-plaintext highlighter-rouge">@SuppressWarnings</code> is accepted.
It is legacy and the new comment based approach should be favored.</p>
<div class="language-java highlighter-rouge"><div class="highlight"><pre class="highlight"><code><span class="c1">//enable suppression</span>
<span class="nd">@SuppressWarnings</span><span class="o">(</span><span class="s">"CPD-START"</span><span class="o">)</span>
<span class="kd">public</span> <span class="nc">Object</span> <span class="nf">someParameterizedFactoryMethod</span><span class="o">(</span><span class="kt">int</span> <span class="n">x</span><span class="o">)</span> <span class="kd">throws</span> <span class="nc">Exception</span> <span class="o">{</span>
<span class="c1">// any code here will be ignored for the duplication detection</span>
<span class="o">}</span>
<span class="c1">//disable suppression</span>
<span class="nd">@SuppressWarnings</span><span class="o">(</span><span class="s">"CPD-END"</span><span class="o">)</span>
<span class="kd">public</span> <span class="kt">void</span> <span class="nf">nextMethod</span><span class="o">()</span> <span class="o">{</span>
<span class="o">}</span>
</code></pre></div></div>
<p>Other languages currently have no support to suppress CPD reports. In the future,
the comment based approach will be extended to those of them that can support it.</p>
<h2 id="credits">Credits</h2>
<p>CPD has been through three major incarnations:</p>
<ul>
<li>
<p>First we wrote it using a variant of Michael Wise’s Greedy String Tiling algorithm (our variant is described
<a href="http://www.onjava.com/pub/a/onjava/2003/03/12/pmd_cpd.html">here</a>).</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>Then it was completely rewritten by Brian Ewins using the
<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burrows%E2%80%93Wheeler_transform">Burrows-Wheeler transform</a>.</p>
</li>
<li>
<p>Finally, it was rewritten by Steve Hawkins to use the
<a href="http://www.nist.gov/dads/HTML/karpRabin.html">Karp-Rabin</a> string matching algorithm.</p>
</li>
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