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I have a number of image files that have duplicates across case (ie file.jpg File.jpg). I need a script like the following except I want to completely remove all uppercase. I know that fslint can do this, but I want to do it in terminal because there are so many..

find . -maxdepth 1 -print0 | sort -z | uniq -diz

case-insensitive search of duplicate file-names

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    You need to be more specific. For example would ./mydir/myfiLe.jpg be considered a duplicate of ./otherdir/myfile.jpg?
    – grochmal
    Commented Jul 5, 2016 at 19:52
  • I'm sure somebody would find it useful to do this across different paths, but I'm primarily concerned with files in the same directory because, if I understand correctly, this particular situation poses a challenge for windows/mac in a git repo.
    – dras
    Commented Jul 6, 2016 at 14:47

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The following script may do what you want (I have it set to echo what it would do, rather than actually do it, so you can see)

#!/bin/bash

# This variable will always be in lower case.  That means that if you do
# l=Hello the result will be $l==hello.
typeset -l l

for f in *
do
  l=$f # Forces to lowercase due to typeset
  if [ "$l" != "$f" -a -e "$l" ]
  then
    echo rm "$f"
  fi
done

So, for example:

$ ls
FIle.JpG  File.jpg  file.jpg

$ rem_case_dup.sh 
rm FIle.JpG
rm File.jpg
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    And, if you're not certain the upper case files really are dups, you might add a test that they contain the same data (some variant of if diff >/dev/null 2>&1 will do it, lots of other choices too).
    – MAP
    Commented Jul 6, 2016 at 1:20
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    (1) This answer would be better if you explained how $l can be different from $f right after you’ve assigned l=$f.  Please do not respond in comments; edit your answer to make it clearer and more complete.   (2) The use if -a (and -o) in […] expressions is discouraged.  Consider using if [ "$l" != "$f" ]  &&  [ -e "$l" ] instead.
    – G-Man Says 'Reinstate Monica'
    Commented Jul 6, 2016 at 7:03
  • Sorry, I didn't think basic typeset features needed explaining; they've only been around for 25+ years, so aren't new! A couple of comments added. Why is -a discouraged?
    – Stephen Harris
    Commented Jul 6, 2016 at 10:38
  • This is great. How can I make it recursive?
    – dras
    Commented Jul 6, 2016 at 16:09
  • Change the for loop to something like find . -type f | while read -r f - have the find` statement determine the scope of your checks; the rest of the loop will compare to files in the same directory as the upper case file was found in.
    – Stephen Harris
    Commented Jul 6, 2016 at 16:11

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