I am writing a bash script, and I would like to know which files are the same in two directory trees.
It would be the opposite of using diff.
Well i found the answer myself. I had tried it before, but I thought it did not work.
diff -srq dir1/ dir2/ | grep identical
You can use a utility like fdupes or rdfind to list duplicate files. For example:
fdupes --recurse dir1 dir2
You might also want to use the
--sameline
flag to list all duplicates on the same line, rather than in text blocks, depending on how you want to parse the results.