Find all folders in a directory with the same content

Question

In Ubuntu, is there any to find duplicate folders in a directory (i. e., folders with the same content)? I think there are already some command-line tools available for finding duplicate files (such as fdupes), but I want to find duplicate folders instead.

Answer 1

#!/bin/bash
shopt -s dotglob

for file in "$1"/*; do [[ -f "$file" ]] && d1+=( "$(md5sum < "$file")" ); done
for file in "$2"/*; do [[ -f "$file" ]] && d2+=( "$(md5sum < "$file")" ); done 

[[ "$(sort <<< "${d1[*]}")" == "$(sort <<< "${d2[*]}")" ]] && echo "Same" || echo "Different"

You can see it in action here:

$ mkdir 1 2
$ ./comparedirs 1 2
Same
$ cat > 1/1 <<< foo
$ cat > 2/1 <<< foo
$ ./comparedirs 1 2
Same
$ cat > 2/1 <<< bar
$ ./comparedirs 1 2
Different