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Gabriel
Gabriel

Reputation: 67

Bash Shell Scripting - Find duplicate named files on different directories

I have several files and folders on different directories which I'm quite positive they have been renamed on those other directories with capitalized letters.

I wanted to be able to find those duplicately named files and folders on the different directories and sort them out so I can see and then track them down afterwards.

Something like:

C:\Program Files\hello.txt

C:\WhateverFolder\heLlo.txt

This would be the output of the program or something similar to that.

You guys think it's possible?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 1069

Answers (2)

Zsolt Botykai
Zsolt Botykai

Reputation: 51613

find /directory | awk '{names[gensub(".*/","","g")]++} END { for (name in names) { if (names[name] > 1) { print name } } }'

Might give you a list of duplicate names (files and folders). That gives you a starting point.

The above assumes gawk, so here is a more general solution which even supports mixed-case filenames, kudos to mklement0 for the idea:

find /directory | awk -F '/' '{names[tolower($NF)]++} END { for (name in names) { if (names[name]>1) { print name }}}'

Upvotes: 2

Mark Setchell
Mark Setchell

Reputation: 207465

If Unix-y commands are too much for you, you can get a listing like this and sort it out yourself maybe?

DIR /B /S /L  somefolder

Upvotes: 0

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