[ale] Stumped-

Dave Weiner davew at coyotetechnical.com
Thu Mar 11 09:59:28 EST 2010


Dennis Ruzeski wrote:
> I have a directory structure-
> 
> |
> |
> \client1\
> |           \images
> |           \movies
> \client2\
> |           \images
> |           \movies
> |etc..
> To around 10000 client directories.
> 
> I need a bash script (I started to write it in python and they want
> bash) to go through this
> tree and find, for each client, files with the same name but different sizes.

I'm not following you.  How could you have two files for the same client
with the same name and different sizes, unless you need to look in all
the client dirs for the file.

> 
> Pretty simple with perl or python but I'm struggling to get a shell
> script to do the same thing.
> 
> Anyone have any ideas?
> 
> --Dennis

Dave


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