How to check if the same file exists multiple times?

megha2525 · August 10, 2012, 2:21pm

Hi Team ,

Is there a way I can check to see if the same file say , test.dat exists multiple times in the directory path ?

Please help.

Thanks
Megha

bartus11 · August 10, 2012, 2:25pm

Try:

find /directory -type f -name test.dat

aashish.sharma8 · August 10, 2012, 2:28pm

ls test.dat | wc -l

This will give you the count of occurances of the file.
If it returns zero then no file present.

Corona688 · August 10, 2012, 2:32pm

That is useless because you can't have more than one file of the same name in the same folder. It will always be either zero, or one.

xbin · August 10, 2012, 2:34pm

If you are looking for files with the same name and content then:

find . -type f -name test.dat -exec cksum {} +

megha2525 · August 10, 2012, 2:45pm

HiCorona688

I do agree with you but I am developing a script that handles exceptions like these just in case.

Thanks everyone.

Megha