[plug] Find similarly named files in directories (golf match)

[Bernard Blackham]

Lyndon Maydwell wrote:
> find|sed 's/.*\///'|sort|uniq -d
>        offending filenames, no paths listed, 32 characters
> 
> However, as this doesn't list the path, you must run find or something
> on the names output for you to be able to handle them, this can be
> solved with a short xargs like function. I was sure that there would
> be a way to do this with xargs, but apparently there isn't. Also, this
> method is seriously slow compared to the others. If someone finds a
> tool that replicates asdf though (there must be one right? I mean this
> is a fairly useful thing to do),

I think you're after xargs -n1 :

find|sed 's#.*/##'|sort|uniq -d|xargs -d\\n -n1 find -name

58 (needs the -d\\n to be immune to filenames with spaces). Still, that 
certainly wins on characters, and readability IMHO! :)

Bernard.