Recursively look in multiple folders and find files with the same name ignoring the extension

DustinB3403

Hey guys,

I have a need to browse through multiple sub-directories and export a list of all files with the same name, ignoring the extension.

Ideally I'd like it to print out like

file1.wav
file1.raw
file2.jpg
file2.mp4

You get the idea, anyways anyone know of how to do this easily?

coliver

Windows, Linux, or Mac?

scottalanmiller

On Linux...

find . -name something.*

DustinB3403

Hrm, so I thought that, but I don't think that is going to work the way that I want it too.

Ideally I'd like it to export the list of all files with the same name in groups like outlined in the OP.

So

file1.wav
file1.raw
file2.jpg
file2.mp4

I think what scott mentioned means I would have to add the file names to the command, which I don't want to do (it would be insanely tedious to try this).

EddieJennings

Sounds like you want to use sort

find /kvm -type f | sort

DustinB3403

@EddieJennings Yeah I do, but I want to sort based on the file name.

If I have the below

somefolder1\file1.wav
somefolder1\freakshow.mp4
somefolder2\file1.mpg

I want the output like

somefolder1\file1.wav
somefolder2\file1.mpg

somefolder1\freakshow.mp4

The reason I want this is because I'm trying to find corresponding files that relate to each other across directories.

EddieJennings

I have an idea. Let me tinker for a bit.

EddieJennings

#!/bin/bash

echo "Enter the full path of the root directory to search"
read ROOT_DIRECTORY

ALL_FILES=$(find $ROOT_DIRECTORY -type f)

for i in $ALL_FILES; do
    INDFILE=$(echo $i | rev | cut -d '/' -f 1 | cut -d '.' -f 2- | rev)
    echo $INDFILE >> /tmp/tempfilefordustin
done

UNIQUE_FILE_NAMES=$(cat /tmp/tempfilefordustin | sort -u)

for j in $UNIQUE_FILE_NAMES; do
    find $ROOT_DIRECTORY -type f -name "$j.*" | sort #not sure if sort is needed
done

rm /tmp/tempfilefordustin

Some man pages and a little Dr. Google + Stackoverflow for the rev idea (never used that before) was enough information to make that. Initial tests were positive.

Edit: Added a fix that I pushed up to Gitlab.

EddieJennings

And if you want that space between each unique file name add an echo "" line just before the final done.

EddieJennings

Tweaked a bit to provide an output file.

https://gitlab.com/EddieJennings/bash-general/-/blob/master/find_files_sort_by_filename.sh