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Re:Go Find Duplicates: A fast and simple tool to find duplic... by HumblyTossed on Monday August 30, 2021 @05:01PM (#28360837)
Does it only find duplicate files or will it also find duplicate directory hierarchies?

Example:

/some/location/one/January/Photos

/some/location/two/January/Photos

I need a tool that would return a match on January directory.

It would be great to be able to filter things. So for example, if I have backups of my dev folder, I want to filter out all the virtual envs (venv below): /home/HumblyTossed/dev/venv/bin /home/HumblyTossed/backups/dev/venv/bin

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Re:Go Find Duplicates: A fast and simple tool to find duplic... by worldeva on Monday August 30, 2021 @08:17PM (#28362554)
Sounds like you're looking for `find` or `fd`

https://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man1/find.1.html (-mindepth -maxdepth can also be added to make it stricter)

  find some/location -type d -wholename '*/January/Photos'
https://github.com/sharkdp/fd

  fd -p '*/January/Photos' some/location
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Re:Go Find Duplicates: A fast and simple tool to find duplic... by chalcolithic on Monday August 30, 2021 @06:25PM (#28361635)
If you downvote HumblyTossed's comment please explain why.
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