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Finding duplicate directories

This simple task is proving harder then imagined. I have a multi-level directory that i'm trying to clean of duplicates, but I can't get 'find' to print what I need to see. To give an illustrative example, here is a dir:

Code:

stuart@stuart:~/testdir$ ls *

dir1:



level2:

dir1

So the output of find as i'd like it to work would show the two locations of dir1, which would be ./dir1 and ./level2/dir1. But no:

Code:

stuart@stuart:~/testdir$ ls -d */ | head -1 | find  . "`cat`" -type d 

.

./level2

./level2/dir1

./dir1

dir1/

What am doing wrong?

does this do what you want?

Code:

find . -type d -name dir1 -print

:study:

Yes - thankyou!

I actually know to use -name, (oops!), but screwed it up using the * wildcard. The -print option i'll look up in the man pages.