[TriLUG] Search for Duplicate Filename, Ignore Extension

[Jason Evans]

I thought fslint also has a filename search function or at least it had.  I
used it to find multiple copies of the same ebook that calibre sometimes
creates.

Best Regards,
Jason



On Wed, Nov 2, 2011 at 1:11 PM, Peter Neilson <neilson at windstream.net>wrote:

> I'd use locate, assuming I have updatedb running. Try
>
> info locate
>
> and see what you get.
>
>
> On Wed, 02 Nov 2011 12:44:47 -0400, Brian Blater <brb.lists at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>  Say I have a drive filled with files, be it images or music or
>> whatever, and I need to find duplicates of the files, but I what to
>> only find the dupes by filename and ignore the extension. For example
>> say I have an image called picture_of_me.jpg but I'm pretty sure that
>> was created from an original file with the same name but another
>> extension. I just want to find all files with the same filename
>> irregardless of it's extension.
>>
>> I've looked at fslint and fdupes but they just appear to look at files
>> based on hashes and since a jpg is different than a tiff etc., nothing
>> is found. I would imagine this could be done with a simple script, but
>> I'm no scripting genius and any script I created would probably end up
>> being 100 lines when it only needed to be 1.
>>
>> Any ideas from our gurus out there?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Brian
>>
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